A Painted Snipe was observed by Maureen O'Shea, Chris Hallam and myself near
Gilletts Ridge, E of Ulmarra, late today. Chris was travelling ahead of us in
his vehicle along a swampy track lined with Swamp Oaks when an unusual bird was
flushed. Maureen went to investigate and was able to attract a male Painted
Snipe from cover by the use of an Audubon bird caller. It sat on a track for
some minutes before disappearing into cover. I approached with my spotting
scope to attempt to clarify the sex of the bird and it flushed about 50 m into
a paddock. It sat partially obscured by grass and eventually emerged into the
open.
An attempt will be made in the morning to obtain photographs of the bird if it
is still present.
This was Maureen's first observation of the species and my first that wasn't in
a net or hand. Bill Lane and I mist netted and banded two at Woolooware Swamp
in the 1970's and a couple were caught by Kerry Muller, then of Taronga Park
Zoo, during banding operations that I attended at McGraths Hill Sewage Works at
about the same time.
Greg Clancy
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