I have had a chance with both work and family to travel a bit around SW NSW and
NW Victoria from my Mildura base. Spring is well and truly about and hopefully
the 15mm of rain we had overnight will get things well and truly breeding.
Friday 11/9 - Yanga NP - Very vocal White-winged Triller and the usual
White-backed Swallows at the Homestead. Drove a bit of the park for work and
saw big numbers of Black-tailed Native-hen at some environmental water and 1
Rufous Songlark in the far north of the park. The weather was windy so not much
was calling.
Saturday 12/9 1 Pallid Cuckoo calling near Apex Park on the Murray River in
Mildura (heard another at Buronga on the NSW side of the river on Thursday).
Friday 18/9 - King's Billabong - A single Sacred Kingfisher calling, lots of
Reed-wrablers, high flocks of Woodswallows overhead (some came down low enough
to identify White-browed), lots of Whiskered Terns over the water (first I have
seen around here but they probably are reasonably common), potential nesting of
ibis on an island in the middle of the main lagoon and the usual bush bird
about.
Saturday 19/9 While walking to the local shopping centre, a large flock of
woodswallows flew over town - no binoculars but again a few White-broweds came
low enough to ID
Sunday 20/9 - A quick trip to another couple of spots on the Murray River
produced nothing exciting, but another Sacred Kingfisher was calling on the NSW
side of the river near Lock 10 (downstream of Wentworth). While hanging washing
out late in the evening a pair of Little Friarbirds briefly alighted in a
Eucalypt in the next door neighbours yard before being chased away by resident
Red Wattlebirds. A new bird for my house list, and another bird was heard
around the corner as I put the bins away this morning (this would have been
close enough to count).
Yesterday - had a trip to Nulla Station near Lake Victoria on the NSW
Mildura-Renmark Road. Once again spent most of the day in the car (particularly
when the first storm came over) but saw a few good things. A few White-winged
Trillers scattered around, White-browed (and at least 1 Masked) Woodswallows
feeding very low as the storm front came over, Red-backed Kingfishers (not rare
but always nice), a Gull-billed Tern was a nice surprise (put the binoculars to
confirm Caspian so lucky I checked) and some very intersting habitat for future
checks of Redthroat and Rufous Fieldwrens (the latter was recorded in the Birds
Australia Atlas, but at 2 of the 3 sites I have visited I have seen Redthroats
so I am keen to identify some sites for future survey. Nulla has some very
interesting lake areas (including a few rare plants which was part of my day's
trip) so I hope to get back out there agian in the next few weeks.
No Rainbow Bee-eaters yet, but they should be here soon. Hopefully I will get
down to the Etiwanda wetlands this afternoon and try and get down to Hattah
Kulkyne on the weekend in some of the good spring weather.
Cheers,
Peter
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