Birdline
Victoria Update No. 153
For the week ending: 14 March,
2004
Unfortunately I have had no further news of the Macaroni Penguin. I know
of at least two expeditions to look for the penguin--both were
unsuccessful. Did anybody else get the bird?
Sightings
13 March
5 Noisy Friarbirds seen feeding on ripening Mirror
Bush berries in the Marlo Hotel carpark. HANZAB suggests only "a few records
East of the Snowy River", thanks Len Axen.
14 March
There were 5
Double-banded Plovers at Pyramid Hill, early birds for this
region, thanks Simon Starr.
13 March
Yarra Valley BOCA members
saw about 20 White-throated Needletails flying high above
Cathedral Ranges National Park, Victoria at about 11.30 a.m. on Saturday 13
March 2004. Approx 37 22 56 S, 145 45 48 E, thanks Merrilyn
Serong.
12 March
There was a single Crested
Pigeon sitting on the wire over a road near a park in Camberwell (in
the bit that used to be Burwood). Approx 37 50 46 S, 145 05 06 E, thanks
Merrilyn Serong.
12 March
There were 6 Hooded
Plovers at Pt Impossible near Torquay, thanks John and Sue
O'Malley.
10 March
At the Breamlea Estuary near Geelong, there
were large numbers of plovers combing the seaweed, including large numbers of
non-breeding and juvenile Double-banded Plovers (probably
15-20), lots of Red-capped Plovers and 4 Hooded
Plovers, including one juvenile hooded, but the highlight was a single
Sanderling feeding with the Red-necked Stints.
It was flagged with a orange flag below, and yellow flag above, on its right
leg, thanks Peter Fuller.
10 March
On fast drying Lake
Burrumbeet: 300 Australian Pelican, 2000+ Red-necked
Avocet, thanks John Gregurke.
8 March
There was one
fairly tired Macaroni Penguin ashore at Johanna Beach. John
& Sue O'Malley.
7 March
At Kerang, there was a group of
White-winged Fairywrens on the road into the Treatment Ponds
(only about a km from the town centre). There were several Grey-crowned
Babblers on Lancaster Rd. (on the way into McDonald's Swamp), thanks
Greg Oakley.
7 March
At Victoria Lagoon near Holland's Landing
this morning, a huge concentration of several thousand Silver
Gulls, approximately 750 Banded Stilts, 75
Black-winged Stilts, 1000 plus Red-necked
Stints, 25 Caspian Terns, thanks Duncan
Fraser.
6 March
The spread of Crested Pigeons
continues; there were 3 feeding on the ground at Devil Bend Reservoir, on
the Mornington Peninsula, thanks Tony Trood.
4 March
Highlights
of a morning's birding at the Cabbage Tree Palms Reserve included 200+
Musk Lorikeets feeding on Eucalyptus botryoides blossom, 25
White-throated Needletails, 3 pairs of Scarlet
Honeyeaters, 1 female Rose Robin and a Bassian
Thrush, thanks Len Axen.
3 March
The Goshawks were
gone, but Peter Fuller, on a return trip to Buckley's Falls, near Fyansford saw
70-80 Gang Gang Cockatoos.
2 March
At the BOCA
Midweek Outing to Reef Island, Western Port Bay the best birds were:
Little Eagle over the mainland; Grey-tailed
Tattler (3); Ruddy Turnstone (30+); Pacific
Golden Plover (20+); Double-banded
Plover (20+), thanks Bill Ramsay.
2 March
There
was a possible single Black-breasted Buzzard flying south over
property approximately 10 km north of Warragul. The bird was quite low and
although the observer did not have binoculars, the short tail and bulleyes made
the bird very easy to identify, thanks Rob Gully Nilma North.
1
March
There were 3 white morph Grey Goshawks down at
Buckleys Falls near Fyansford, Geelong on Monday evening, thanks Peter
Fuller.
1 March
There was a dead Shy Albatross
washed onto the beach at Point Lonsdale, thanks Rod Corinaldi.
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Regards,
Stuart
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