Today (8th April 2007) I experienced a pleasant Autumn morning birding at
Prospect Reservoir (approx. 40km west of Sydney CBD). It was mainly sunny,
cool to start with and then some humidity developing later in the morning.
In the bush, there was a good mixture of Winter, Summer and resident birds
including Fan-tailed Cuckoos (very vocal), a few Rose Robins (a few
female/Immature birds but no adult males seen yet), a family of Crested
Shrike-tits (a pair with a young bird), several Golden and a few Rufous
Whistlers, a few Rufous Fantails and numerous Grey Fantails (the former
species often move through Prospect in April and the later species appear to
be very common this time of year at Prospect from birds which have moved in
from down south or from the Great Dividing Range), Noisy Friarbird,
Yellow-faced and Scarlet Honeyeaters (a few of both species stay all year
round. No migrating flocks of Yellow-faced as yet), lots of Mistletoebirds
and Silvereyes, Spotted and Striated Pardalotes, Varied Sittellas, some
Double-barred Finches and Dusky Woodswallows.
The highlight of the morning was a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles circling high
above Prospect (the 4th time of I have recorded this species at Prospect and
the second time I have seen a pair there). There was also one of the
resident White-bellied Sea-eagles, a brief sighting of a Goshawk (too quick
and distant to determine whether it was either one of the regular Grey or
Brown Goshawks), 600 plus Coots and less than a dozen Great Crested Grebes
(as with previous years numbers may build to a 100-200 towards the winter).
There were a few trees in flower with quite a few mahogany's in bud and
almost ready for the Swift Parrots which should be in Sydney by now. (I have
had them at Easter time close to the area at least once).
Edwin Vella
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