Hi all
I took advantage of a fine morning and having no jobs around the house to
have a walk along a track near my house, which I have done a few times
before. I started at McRae Place and followed the track through to where
it is below Golden Jubilee Oval in Wahroonga, and the walked back the same
way. It was a bit soggy in places, but the birds were quite active and
vocal.
Highlight was 2 female Glossy Black Cockatoos seen feeding in casuarinas
near the Clissold Road junction - there was possibly a third bird (could
have been the male?) but it wasn't seen. Certainly there were calls coming
from another tree further back than I could see. I'd noticed that the track
has plenty of casuarinas along its length on prior visits, so I reckoned it
wasn't going to be too many visits before I hooked up with some.
A Grey Goshawk was seen several times over the valley when I was level with
Golden Jubilee Oval, really putting the wind up the Cockatoos, although a
Magpie came up and moved it on both times.
Amongst 44 species identified, I also saw an Olive Backed Oriole, 5 or 6
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos feasting on an Old Man Banksia, plenty of
Silvereyes (Tasmanian birds with very brown sides?), several groups of
Variegated Wrens, a Wonga Pigeon, 2 fine male Rose Robins, a close encounter
(less than a metre) with a very vocal Spotted Pardalote, a Large Billed
Scrubwren and heard 2 separate Lyrebirds singing in the valley. One of the
Wonga Pigeons I heard must have done a 10 minute uninterrupted
"whoop-whoop-whoop" sequence. Not many honeyeaters - a couple of Eastern
Spinebills, a single Scarlet and Wattlebirds.
There was no sign of Powerful Owls in the 2 sites where I have seen them on
this track before, as I suspect they'll be at their breeding site. As both
the roosts I know of are cunningly placed directly over a stream, there was
no way of checking if there was any sign of recent visits as any whitewash
would have been washed away.
Cheers
Tom Wilson
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