Yesterday, 12th August 2006, I showed a visiting English birdo around
Bulga. Bulga is located in the Hunter Valley approx. 180 km NW of Sydney
CBD.
Along Wambo Rd, the northern end of Bulga, we saw a good variety of
birds including 5 White-backed Swallows (flying low over the paddocks
with several Fairy Martins and Welcome Swallows), 3 Red-capped Robins
(an adult male and 2 females), a male Rose Robin, several Jacky Winters,
2 King Parrots, 3 Wedge-tailed Eagles, several Grey-crowned Babblers,
Striped Honeyeaters, several Speckled Warblers, Varied Sitellas,
White-winged Choughs, Pied Butcherbirds and Mistletoebird. We also heard
Little Lorikeets fly overhead and a Grey Currawong.
On the eastern end of Bulga, we also spent an hour or so along Wallaby
Scrub Road seeing a pair of Hooded Robins, a Common Bronzewing, a male
Crested Shrike-tit, a Restless Flycatcher, 5 Brown Tree-creepers, a
Brown Falcon, an Immature male Rufous Whistler, more Grey-crowned
Babblers and Striped Honeyeaters, Brown-headed Honeyeaters, several
Dusky Wooswallows and a Speckled Warbler. We were hoping to find some of
the local finches (including Diamond Firetail and the more common
Double-barred Finch but without success.)
We also saw plenty of Eastern Grey Kangaroos (dead and alive) and about
half a dozen Red-necked Wallabies.
Edwin Vella
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