Recently (24th September) while birding at the sewerage treatment ponds
in Lake Cargelligo I found a pair of glasses. They have rectangular
lenses in a lightweight bronze frame (with a ?brand name 'Chisel 2.0')
and appear to be prescription glasses (53 and 18 on the inside of the
nose bridge). Please contact me if you think they may be yours.
By the way, the birding at the STW was great with highlights being
Orange Chat (a small group with several males) and excellent close-up
looks at Baillon's and Spotted Crake.
We visited Lake Cargelligo while four of us (all keen birders) camped at
Whoey Tank in Round Hill Nature Reserve for a week. During this time we
put a lot of effort into searching for mallee birds. As mentioned in
recent postings it is very dry and there is virtually no flowering of
nectar providers at the moment (however Acacia triptera and Senna were
flowering). The Red-lored Whistlers are certainly very thin on the
ground. We did not see or hear a one, but saw plenty of Gilbert's
Whistlers. The highlight was seeing two Mallee Fowl crossing the Lake
Cargelligo road about 3k south of the T junction with the Mount Hope
road; the lowlight was finding a dead Mallee Fowl on the track along the
rail line in Nombinee NR; it appeared to have been hit by a vehicle. Saw
all of the other likely mallee birds but numbers of honeyeaters was low.
White-eared and Brown-headed were common but only a few Yellow-plumed
and Grey-fronted.
Birding around the Whoey tank areas was good with higher numbers of
species and individuals than in the mallee. Good birds included Hooded
Robin, Black-eared Cuckoo, Crimson Chat, Pink Cockatoo and Little
Woodswallow (one seen among large flock of White-browed and Masked). We
also saw Red-backed Kingfisher west of L. Cargelligo and White-browed
Tree-creeper east of Mt Hope.
In all, an enjoyable week despite the dry conditions and the flies.
Phil Gilmour
Bellingen NSW
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