Dear all
Gloucester has been extremely wet this last month, not like the majority
of NSW. The dams are full, the Gloucester and Barrington Rivers running
a spate, the paddocks bright green and the stock looking very content.
The last couple of weeks we have been inundated with Top-knot Pigeons -
a flock of around 130 flew low over my house two days ago - a violently
rushing wind over head, and I've seen smaller groups every day. There
are as usual many White-headed Pigeons in town, taking advantage of a
bumper crop of Camphor Laurel seeds, and White-bellied Sea-eagles have
been patrolling up and down the Glos.River. A walk through Copeland
Conservation Reserve on Friday 20th May was very quiet. We heard more
than we saw, ie Wompoo, Wonga and Brown Pigeons, Lyrebird giving a few
calls, Yellow-tailed Black Cockies. The best view was a pair of Crested
Shrike-tits, and up the top of the reserve at 11.30am a female
Red-browed Treecreeper. Spot-lighting up the old Copeland Road Sat night
was even more quiet, no owls responding, one Stuttering Frog giving a
feeble stutter, one Greater Glider, one Brush-tailed Possum and one
Tawny Frogmouth, but it was a beautiful evening with bright moonlight -
no doubt why so little in sight.
A pair of Whistling Kites were performing courtship antics over my house
last week and Chestnut-breasted Manikins at the Wetlands with lots of
juveniles. WEhat I don't like is the increasing numbers of Common Mynas
that come into this part of town for the winter.
Today 22 May the Grey-crowned Babbler group was out searching for GCBs
south of Gloucester. My group found none, the other group found 20 at a
site we already know about near Monkerai. My best sighting was a Grey
Goshawk at 8.50am on Johnson Creek Road, between Stroud Road and
Weismantels.
However on 15 May we found a group of 10 GCBs, one nest building on a
property west of Gloucester between Westleys Road and Rocky Crossing,
with 8 other nests in Broad-leafed White Mahogany.
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