Gluepot update

["Peter Waanders" <>]

Hi all
A few days ago I visited Birds Australia's Gluepot Reserve
('Gluepot') (if you want to know why the complicated way of posting this
name, email me privately), after over a month's absence due to various
reasons (including a week's birding in NW Thailand with 150
lifers...!)
It's dry and dusty, as is to be expected this time of year,
and the birds are hard to find, but all good species were present, including
Striated Grasswren, Gilbert's Whistler, White-browed Treecreeper, a pair of
perfectly showing Shy Heathwren, Southern Scrubrobin almost at the
observers' feet; a nicely showing Owlet Nightjar; a small flock of
Black-eared Miners unfortunately containing a pretty pale hybrid; and plenty
of Chestnut Quail-thrushes. At one of the bird hides, 20 or 30 drinking
Mulga Parrots with a few Mallee Ringnecks were quite a spectacle, as was a
brilliantly coloured White-eared Honeyeater at close range.
The areas to
the south of Gluepot, bunt in the Dec '06 bushfires, are recovering slowly
but steadily, but the mallee trees have 1 to 1.5 m regrowth on them
(from the base). Birds are starting to move into these areas again.
So
all in all, it's looking promising for the next few
months, with all the necessary ingredients for a promising winter
and spring season - we just need the autumn rains to start, to make it all
happen.
See my website below for more info.

cheers

Peter
Waanders
Southern Birding Services
http://www.sabirding.com 
PO Box 420,
Waikerie, 5330
South Australia
Ph. 0424 212889

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