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Buttongrass walk, Bunyip SP

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Subject: Buttongrass walk, Bunyip SP
From: "Kevin" <>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:22:14 +1000
hi all

  on the weekend(sunday 17/9), i went to the buttongrass walk, north of
tynong, in the bunyip state forrest(west gippsland). i saw a total of 16
species:

  Common Name                         Latin Name
Number

  Grey Fantail                              Rhipidura fuliginosa
10+

  Striated Thornbill                       Acanthiza lineata
5+

  Brown Thornbill                        Acanthiza pusilla
10+

  Spotted Pardalote                      Pardalotus punctatus
5+

  Flame Robin                             Petroica phoenicea
3         could have been mistletoe bird?????

  White-plumed Honeyeater         Lichenostomus penicillatus             5

  White-throated Treecreeper       Corombates leucophaeus               1

  Superb Fairy-wren                     Malurus cyaneus
10+

  Small unidentified hawk
1             flew fast through  trees

  White-eared Honeyeater*          Lichenostomus leucotis
3

  Rufous Whistler*                       Pachycephala rufiventris
1

  Beautiful Firetail*                       Stagonopleura bella
5+

  Eastern Spinebill                         Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
1

  Eastern Rosella                          Platycercus eximius
2

  Australian Wood Duck               Chenonetta jubata
1

  New Holland Honeyeater            Phylidonyris novaehollandiae          5






   i also thought i heard southen emu wren? would that be possible. i heard
i call i had never heared before, and looked up southen emu wren (the
brouhure mentiopns them) when i got home, and it sounded similar

  not a bad day, with 3 lifers(marked*)



  Kev :)
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