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Victoria Update No. 154
For the week ending: 21 March,
2004
Sightings
18 March
Highlights of a trip to Walkerville: 50 +
White-throated Needletails, 3 Beautiful
Firetails, Southern Emu-Wren, Striated Fieldwren, Hooded
Plover, White-bellied Sea-Eagle and Olive Whistler,
thanks Greg Oakley.
16 March
A beach-washed Mottled
Petrel was found by Rob Farnes & Adam Rigg on Discovery Bay. This
is the 4th specimen for the area, yet the pelagic trips have never seen a
live one!, thanks Mike Carter.
16 March
A full adult
White-breasted Sea Eagle was seen flying from south to north
towards San Remo over Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island, being mobbed by
Australian Magpies, thanks Robbie Brown.
14 March
On the monthly Port Fairy Pelagic the following highlights were recorded: 1
Gould's Petrel, 4 White-chinned Petrel and 8
Buller's Albatross, thanks Mike Carter.
14
March
Whittlesea 82 Gang-gang Cockatoos, foraging on
Hawthorn berries. A Wedge-tailed Eagle flew over putting up the
birds in many flocks, thanks Michael Ramsey.
14 March
There were
5 Double-banded Plovers at Pyramid Hill, early birds for this
region, thanks Simon Starr.
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.
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
Bob Swindley counted 595 Freckled
Duck there on 1-5 March, also 21,000 Pink-eared Duck,
6,300 Australasian Shoveler, 4,070 Blue-billed
Duck, 1,462 Musk Duck and 24,000 Hoary-headed
Grebes (among the more notable counts). He and Danny Rogers have seen
two Pectoral Sandpipers on several dates, moving between
T-section and Walsh's lagoons. Danny saw a Terek Sandpiper at
the T-section lagoon on ~10 March. Maarten Hulzebosh watched two white-phase
Grey Goshawks hunting near the Werribee Zoo on 11 March, thanks
Richard Loyn.
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 an orange flag below, and yellow flag above, on its right
leg, thanks Peter Fuller.
10 March
On fast drying Lake
Burrumbeet: 300 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.
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Regards,
Stuart
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