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Birdline ACT
Published sightings for the week ending 20 Mar 2011.
| Fri 18 Mar
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Barking Owl
Shepherds Lookout
I’m just back from walking the dog at Shepherds Lookout and, even for a non-twitcher like me, it was rather pleasing to flush a Barking Owl. Interestingly the most recent endorsed record was from the same spot in autumn, albeit in 1998. The bird was unmistakeable – so much bigger than a boobook, and quite differently marked. After the initial flush, it obligingly perched quite close and peered at us for a few minutes, affording an excellent view. Whether it would still be there, I don’t know, but for anyone wanting to look for it, it was around the western side of the dirt track leading to the lookout, before the track leading down to Uriarra Crossing. b
Barbara Allen
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| Tue 15 Mar
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Australian Shelduck
Large Dam just before Ginniderry Homestead on Parkwood Road
Pair present
Stephen Wallace
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| Mon 14 Mar
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Grey Goshawk
West Macgregor
White phase Grey Goshawk at Parkwood/West Macgregor this morning. Between the Parkwood chicken farm and Ginninderra creek on the river flats visible from the old sewage works road (i.e. Bicentennial trail about 3/4 km after the Stables). Last seen around the chicken farm itself at about 10.00 am.
Peter Christian
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| Sun 13 Mar
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Bassian Thrush
upper Warks Road
Haven't seen one in the ACT for years.
John Leonard
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