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Crimson Chat and Red-capped Robin at Sydney Park, St Peters

To: "Kurtis Lindsay" <>
Subject: Crimson Chat and Red-capped Robin at Sydney Park, St Peters
From: "Evan Beaver" <>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:23:22 +1100
Just a quick note to confirm that I saw the Chats this afternoon at
about 5:30pm. Easily found, pottering around under the Acacias.

EB

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Kurtis Lindsay <> wrote:
> This Sydney park may turn out to be one of Sydney's best kept secrets. I
> certainly had never heard of it before these Chats were seen!
>
> Kurtis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
>  On Behalf Of Nikolas Haass
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 4:39 PM
> To: Scott Henderson; ; 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Crimson Chat and Red-capped Robin at Sydney Park,
> St Peters
>
> Hi all,
>
> In addition to the pair of Crimson Chats, there is a young male
> (female-coloured, but extensive wing-bars) Red-capped Robin in the same area
> this early afternoon.
> Plus Whiskered Tern, Nutmeg Mannikin...
>
> Seen by a bunch of birders today.
>
> Nikolas
>  ----------------
> Nikolas Haass
> 
> Sydney, NSW
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Scott Henderson <>
> To: ; 
> Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 4:21:39 PM
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Crimson Chat at Sydney Park, St Peters - ANOTHER
> SYDNEY VAGRANT -
>
> Thanks Max for confirming that a couple of Chats were in Sydney Park. I
> thought I was going a bit nutty at first when I saw them.
>
> A great spot - I live in Chippendale not far away, and I didn't even know
> there were ponds at the bottom of the park until I saw them flying into
> Sydney recently. Yesterday was the day I decided to check them out.
>
> Also seen were the Dotterels, a Sacred Kingfisher and a pair of Whiskered
> Terns.
>
> My coordinates on Birdline were a bit off. I saw them at  approx
> 33°54'47.38"S 151°11'1.16"E
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  on behalf of 
> Sent: Mon 06/10/2008 9:03 AM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Crimson Chat at Sydney Park,St Peters - ANOTHER
> SYDNEY VAGRANT -
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> after hearing about Scott Henderson's sighting of a pair of Crimson Chats at
> Sydney Park, I was eager to get over there and have a look. Annoyingly, a
> lunch with friends had been organised for Monday, but it was canceled when
> they called saying they were sick.
>
> I convinced my dad to drive me to Sydney Park to have a look and we reached
> Sydney Park at 9:15am. I had never been to the park before and was suprised
> at the amount of birdlife which showed.
>
> We walked around the South-east side of the park seeing quite a few
> waterbirds- Hardhead, White-faced Heron and Dusky Moorhen, but we soon found
> Clamorous Reed-Warbler in the reeds around the main pond and also a
> Black-fronted Dotterel wich flew low over the main pond calling.
> After about half-an-hour of searching, all we had to show was a large flock
> of Nutmeg Mannikins and a pair Australasian Grebes. So we headed back
> towards the car. On the way back we walked along the western side of the
> main pond where we found some small wattle trees, which was where the chats
> had been seen previously. Upon walking around the wattles we found another
> flock of Nutmeg Mannikins and after a minute of searching out came a
> beautiful male Crimson Chat! He began feeding on the ground below a wattle
> until he saw us, he then flew over to another wattle, where he was joined by
> his mate. We then watched them feeding under a wattle for about five minutes
> until they flew off.
>
> If anyone would like exact details to where we saw them I would be happy to
> reply.
>
> Here's to ANOTHER SYDNEY VAGRANT =)
>
> Max Breckenridge,
> Gladesville, Sydney...
>
> P.S. Well done to Scott Henderson for finding them in the first place!
>
>
>
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Evan Beaver
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