Birdline Australia
Published sightings for the week ending 9 May 2010.
Sat 8 May Possible Little Stint Lee Point (Darwin) , Northern
Territory
on Saturday May 8th, I saw a single tiny Stint, that matched the
description of a Little Stint, amongst a mixed flock of Greater and
Lesser Sand Plovers, Sanderlings, Great Knots, Grey-tailed Tattlers,
Turnstones and a Terek Sandpiper on the rocks at Lee Point in Darwin.
There were no other Stints there for comparison. If any Darwin birders
or birding visitors are out there soon would you please scan the waders
and, if you find it, let me know what you think it is.
Barry Davies
Tue 4 May Spangled Drongo, Powerful Owl Newmerella, Victoria
DSE staff ( Orbost ) report the presence of a pair of Powerful Owls
within a steeply forested gully at Newmerella and a Spangled Drongo on
the margins of that same area.
Tony Mitchell, Rob Poore per Len Axen
Mon 3 May Sooty Tern Mallacoota Inlet, Victoria
Bob Semmens sent me this photo of a a juv Sooty Tern found freshly dead
on Mirrabooka, Mallacoota Inlet, Victoria. [3rd record for Victoria:
other reports include June 1975 Mallacoota camp park, and Jan 1978 7 km
east of the Skerries East Gippsland Plains.]
Bob Semmens per Mike Carter
Spangled Drongo Nyerimilang Park, East Gippsland, Victoria
A Spangled Drongo was sighted being tormented by Bell Miners at
Nyerimilang Park 5kms east of Lakes Entrance by EGBOC members on Monday
outing. Ken Sherring
Ken Sherring
Sat 1 May Pictorella Mannikin Trafalgar Station - 50 km south
Charters Towers (private property), Queensland
A small flock of Pictorella Mannikins, along with a larger flock of
Plum-headed Finches in an open paddock north of the homestead. This is
the most south easterly record in the Atlas. 20 25' 58" S 146 00' 36" E.
BA North Qld campout per Ivor Preston
Sun 25 Apr Gouldian Finch, White-winged Triller Mary River National
Park (proposed), Northern Territory
4 Gouldian Finches seen about 100 meters from the road on the way to the
Bird Billabong carpark (3 black face, 1 red face) Amongst many other
good sightings were around 25 White-winged Trillers in a feeding flock
(perhaps recently returning migrants)
Tim Bawden
Fri 23 Apr Noisy Pitta Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales
Friends of Peter Marsh found a dead Noisy Pitta in their suburban garden
in Balmain. Peter then forwarded the bird onto Wolter Boles at the
Australian Museum. [This species is very rarely recorded in Sydney these
days, especially inner-suburban Balmain. One made an appearance in
outer-west Sydney at this time last year near Blacktown, MC].
Peter Marsh (via Birding-Aus) per Martin Cachard
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