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Hello birders,
This time of year really is special. Amazing what
one can see and hear on a Sunday afternoon's stroll in suburban bushland
- Pennant Hills Park (being in Sydney's north-west). We followed Devlin's
Creek from Day Road, Cheltenham, past Whale Rock at North Epping to Lane
Cove River, below South Turramurra, and back.
Of special note, a male Variegated Wren (unusual in
this area?), an Echidna shuffling and snuffling across the path at our feet, and
then a great view across the creek into an opening in dense foliage, revealing
THREE Powerful Owls :- One adult and two, white-headed juveniles! (Owls in
the 'usual' area near Whale Rock).
So, the Echidna and several Eastern Water
Dragons, and birdlist as follows:-
Galah
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Australian King Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Laughing Kookaburra
Sacred Kingfisher
Powerful Owl
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Eastern Yellow Robin
Golden Whistler
Leaden Flycatcher
Eastern Whipbird
Superb Blue Wren
Variegated Wren
White-browed Scrubwren
Brown Gerygone
Brown Thornbill
White-throated Treecreeper
Red Wattlebird
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Silvereye
Spotted Pardalote (heard)
Red-browed Finch
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Australian Magpie
Australian Raven.
Ho - hum!! :-)
Cheers
Peter Madvig, Beecroft
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