Birdline Victoria
Published sightings for the week ending 9 May 2010.
Sun 9 May Spangled Drongo Nyerimilang Park
Found this Drongo quite easily on the Whistling Kite track. Thanks to
Ken for directions. (Couldn't find the bird reported near Newmerella.)
Chris and Rosemary Lester
Black Falcon Rodborough Rd, Moolort Plains
Pair seen in the same location as last reported on 9th March this year.
Geoff Park
Sat 8 May Lewin's Rail (2 heard), Spotless Crake Borrow Pits,
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee
A Spotless Crake in the little pond just north of the east end of the
Borrow Pits, and two Lewin's Rails heard "mrrping" to each other in the
south east corner.
Peter Shute, Bill Stent
Wonga Pigeon Bunyip State Park
One beautiful bird seen on the clearing beside the road at the entry to
Nash Creek Camping Area.
Ann Williamson and Andrew McCutcheon
Scarlet Honeyeater Banyule Flats
Male still showing in mistletoe near the windmill. Also around the
windmill was a family of Golden Whistlers, a Grey Currawong and an
Olive-Backed Oriole. Lots of bird activity in the area, was there from
2-4.
Jeremy Weiss
Swift Parrots Cnr of Aldridge Dr and Manrico Crt, Sunbury
Flock of 24 Swift Parrots sighted (in one group flying) with further
birds present in the vicinity feeding. Observed the birds closely for
over half an hour feeding on lerps (very extensive presence of lerps) on
the leaves of the flowering Yellow Gum. Didnt observe any feeding on the
extensive flowering although that could have been happening. Birds
actively flying from tree to tree and calling. Amongst the fully ledged
adults I observed between 6 - 8 juveniles.
Gerard O'Neill
Fri 7 May Southern Boobook Point Cook coastal park, Point Cook
One bird seen around third carpark being hassled by Singing and New
Holland HE's as well as Willie Wagtails and Red Wattlebirds. Moved on a
few times but continued being harassed. Observed for 15 - 20 minutes and
was still being harassed when I left, poor thing.
Paul Randall (wingsonwire.com/birdingoz)
Brolga 5km north of Clunes
A single bird flying west high over the main road from Clunes to
Maryborough at approximately 8.50 a.m.
Gary Oliver
Swift Parrot Newport Lakes Park
Flock of 6 birds passing rapidly over in north-easterly direction (6).
Steve Davidson
Thu 6 May Swift Parrot Annands Track, Sandon State Forest
Flock of 9 Swift Parrots seen at 4.30pm. Honeyeaters in very large
numbers at the moment with Black-chinned and White-naped prominent.
Geoff Park
Crested Pigeon Morton Park, Blackburn
At 4pm, 54 feeding on the western (lower) oval. Last year's best was 37,
from memory. How do they know?
Trevor Kerr
Scarlet Honeyeater Darebin Parklands
New record for this site. 4 males and 2 females but could have been more
than this as they were moving a lot. Originally spotted in a dead tree
then they joined a large mixed feeding flock of silvereyes, superb
fairy-wrens, spotted pardalotes, yellow thornbills and brown thornbills
but mostly seemed to be squabbling with the birds in this group. (6).
Ian Lundy
Scarlet Honeyeater Lakewood Reserve Knoxfield
A single male feeding (on insects?) with New Holland Honeyeater, Red
Wattlebirds, a Grey Fantail and Brown Thornbills in acacias 3m beyond
the Watersedge Close entrance to the reserve; when I first saw it,
without binoculars, I thought Eastern Spinebill; then the red flash on
the throat suggested Mistetoebird, but bins revealed Scarlet Honeyeater.
I have lived in Knoxfield for 38 years and have never seen this species
nearer than Mallacoota!
Anthony Bushell
Wed 5 May Blue Faced Honeyeater Heidleberg
The bird was sighted on two consecutive days feeding on a flowering
eucalypt located near Warringal parklands at the Greening Australia
office in the mid afternoon. The bird was witnessed by a number of
different people and was being harrassed by noisy miners.
Greg Maher
Swift Parrots kangaroo Flat
4 birds flew over the Calder Hwy/Lockwood Rd intersection 4.30pm today
heading in a South easterly from the box/ironbark forest at the back of
Olympic parade towards the box iron bark forest around Spring Gully
Greg McKay
Darter Patterson River,Bangholme
3 Darters were seen swimming in the Patterson River from the Mornington
Peninsular Freeway where it crosses the river.The birds were seen on the
side of the road looking towards the National Water Sports Centre.
Ben Sinclair
Orange-bellied Parrot Western Treatment Plant, Werribee
Male seen sitting on island in Borrow Pits from N Shore around 10am.
After being observed for several minutes he took off for no apparent
reason and flew NW, accompanied by a female who had been hidden
Dave Torr and Andy Jensen
Tue 4 May Spangled Drongo, Powerful Owl Newmerella
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 Scarlet Honeyeater Yarra River at Burke Road bridge,
Ivanhoe
4 Scarlet Honeyeaters still present in Mistletoe in Black Wattle
upstream from Burke Road bridge - number is down from maximum of around
20 a couple of weeks ago.
John Barkla & Alison Street
Sooty Tern Mallacoota Inlet
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
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
Sun 2 May Grey Goshawk white morph Main Yarra Trail, along
northern perimeter of Petty's Orchard
One bird seen on both 2 and 3 May at about 11:00 am in the trees along
the Yarra River.
Maarten Grabandt
Australasian Bittern Western Treatment Plant, Werribee
Seen just West of the bird hide
Greg McKay
White-backed Swallow,50+Diamond firetail, Speckled Warbler,
Perigrine Wodonga
Very good birds for such a small, sparse habitat S.East Wodonga near
Bandiana. A handful of White-backed Swalllows associating with Tree
Martins, Large Flock of residential Diamond Firetails, as well as
Southern whiteface, Western gerygone, pair of Speckled Warblers, Crested
Shrike-tit, all three red robins, and an immature Perigrine Falcon.
Aaron Sandford
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Western Treatment Plant, Werribee
6 Zebra Finches at boat ramp entrance, 6 Cattle Egret at T section, 2
adult White-bellied Sea-Eagles between Walshes and the Conservation
Ponds, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits and 1 Glossy Ibis at Walshes Lagoon, 1 Fairy
Tern at Kirks Point, 2 Double-banded Plovers on the beach opposite the
Conservation Ponds and a large number of Darters at Lake Borrie. All in
all, a really interesting "off-season" day at the farm.
Jon Thornton and Fiona Parkin
Grey-crowned Babbler Rushworth forest
A flock (of 6) still persists on the eastern edge of this forest.
Chris Lester
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (2), Crested Bellbird (1) and Hooded
Robin (3) Bailieston
Good birding at Bailieston after a long poor time. Recent rains have
enabled many of the Ironbarks to flower. 14 species of honeyeater
(including good numbers of Noisy and Little Friarbirds) and flocks of
the 3 species of lorikeets contributed some good background noise to the
80 species seen on the day.
Chris Lester
Orange-bellied Parrot, Australasian Bittern Western Treatment
Plant, Werribee
2 adult OBP's in 270 South Borrow Pit. Under observation from 30 metres
for 15 minutes but could not determine if either bird was banded.
Immature Austalasian Bittern (definitely a different bird to the one we
found in the 55E Conservation Pond) seen twice in the afternoon on the
coastal road south west from the bird hide. Other good birds Brolga (4),
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (4), Double-banded Plover (b/w 150 - 200),
Tree Martin (350 - 400), Fairy Martin (30 - 50), White-winged Black Tern
(1 in full breeding plumage), Black-tailed Godwit (2), Australasian
Darter (10), Zebra Finch (25), Flame Robin (6) and Wedge-tailed Eagle
(1).
John Barkla, Fred Smith & Alison Street
Intermediate Egret, Brolga, Australasian Bittern, Glossy Ibis
Western Treatment Plant, Werribee
Intermediate Egret: Shore side of Beach Road near hide. Brolga: Paradise
Road Lagoons. Australasian Bittern: Beach Road ponds, near hide. Glossy
Ibis: Walsh's Lagoon. Thanks to John Barkla, Fred Smith and Alison for
location of Bittern.
Paul Dodd, Ruth Woodrow & Dee Dodd
Scarlet Honeyeater Rushworth State Forest
Bailleston Rd. Near Quarry , Possibly 4 birds , 2 Females and 1 juvenile
Male who was developing some red plumage and singing. 1 other bird heard
near old peppercorn tree but not seen. (3).
Colin Mulvogue
Sat 1 May Bush Stone-curlew, Shy Heathwren, Forest Raven Jilpanger
Nature Conservation Reserve
Bush Stone-curlew: Heard pre-dawn, Jilpanger Rd (1). Shy Heathwren: seem
reasonably abundant in reserve, 4 birds encountered, others heard.
Forest Raven: a few small parties seen and heard.
Steve Davidson
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