The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, April 25, 2011 to Sunday, May 1, 2011:
Area: SA
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011
Location: On our property at Rockleigh
Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) (6) 6 or 7 birds were flushed from a patch
of low rushes close to a creek line. They flew up and plonked themselves down
about 10 metres away in a patch of tall rushes beside a small waterhole, never
to be seen again.
Single brown quail have been spotted twice in the last 2 years, so it was good
to see this group.
Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Wednesday, April 27, 2011
---------------------------------------------
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Location: Somerton Park.
Barbary Dove (Streptopelia roseogrisea) (48) This morning 48 Barbary Dove's on
the power lines each side of the road, 54 Oaklands Rd, Somerton Park.
Resting and preening following good rain.
I have never seen this many in one place before. Quiet a few Spotted dove's
near by.
Reported by: Teresa Jack on Sunday, May 1, 2011
---------------------------------------------
Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
Location: Main North Road, Smithfield
Australian Hobby (Falco longipennis) (2) Pair in a aerial dogfight.
Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) (1) One bird gliding across Main North Road.
Had pulled over off Main North Rd just near the Blakeview crossing sign and was
out of the car when I spotted a pair of Hobbies in a spectacular battle at
great speed just out above the new housing development, great to watch these
speedsters constantly diving at each other and then gaining height to do it all
again!
Driving again about 500m north of the Hobbies a flock of Starlings were in fast
tight formation causing me to think the Hobbies had headed this way, but turned
out to be a Brown Goshawk floating through which had stirred them up.
Reported by: Chris Steeles on Sunday, May 1, 2011
---------------------------------------------
Need more information about a sighting? Login and contact the poster directly.
Receive sightings via email or SMS immediately they are posted.
Not a member of Birdpedia? Membership is free and gives you access to
information for over 230 countries.
To sign up go to the Birdpedia Web Site (http://www.birdpedia.com/).
To find out more about Birdpedia and what it can do for you, see 'What is
Birdpedia?'
---------------------------------------------
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
http://birding-aus.org
===============================
|
