-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Hewish
Sent: Monday, 12 December 2005 4:12 PM
To: Lorraine Phelan
Subject: RFI: White-throated Nightjar
Hi Lorraine,
If you want to reply to this person, the best area in the Brisbane
Ranges is in the north along Aeroplane Road, between the junction with
Reids Rd (the Rowsley - Mount Wallace Road that passes through the
northern ranges) and Mistletoe Track. In the southern ranges, the
junction of McLeans Highway and Griffen Hill Track is also good.
It's much much easier to hear the birds than see them, as they can be
heard from great distances and the country is rugged. We heard the
birds at many locations in 2004, but at the two areas mentioned above
we saw them, either flying through the headlights or perched on the
ground at the roadside (they have bright white eye shine in the
headlights).
Best conditions are full to three-quarter moon, mainly clear, calm
,warm.
Aeroplane Road can be very rough in places.
For details, see Geelong Bird Report 2004.
Cheers,
Marilyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Frank
> Rheindt
> Sent: Monday, 12 December 2005 11:38 AM
> To:
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] RFI: White-throated Nightjar
>
> Dear all,
>
> does anyone know any good and reliable sites for White-throated
> Nightjar
> around Melbourne?
>
> We tried the area around Lower Stony Creek Reservoir in the Brisbane
> Ranges
> last night under good conditions, but there was no unequivocal
> sighting of a
>
> White-throated Nightjar, though we may have briefly heard one.
>
> Are there any particular spots in the Brisbane Ranges where they
> occur? How
> about other sites around Melbourne? I vaguely remember people posting
> sightings from the Yarra Ranges a couple of years ago...
>
> Cheers
> Frank
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