Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 1 May 2011.

Sun 1 May	Cotton Pygmy-goose Lake Clarendon, Lockyer Valley 5 Birds Glen Pacey
	Glossy Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, Musk Duck, Pink-eared Duck Seven Mile Lagoon, Lockyer Waters Glen Pacey
Fri 29 Apr	Nutmeg Mannikin Fitzgibbon Bushland Site off Telegraph Road, Bracken Ridge, 27 20 06 S, 153 01 49 E At least six Nutmegs in a mixed flock of 60+ Double Barred Finches and 30+ Chestnut Breasted Mannikins. In long grass along a drain on the edge of the old Fitzgibbon Dump Site. I have been surveying this site for past 11 years and this is my first record of Nutmegs in this area. Ross Smith
Wed 27 Apr	Rufous-crowned Emu-wren, Halls Babbler, Plum-headed finches Bladensburg NP Some great sightings at Bladensburg over 2 days of birding. Rufous-crowned Emu-wren sighted along with Spinifexbird at usual Skull Hole site but found RCEW easier to track down opposite Logan Falls turn-off. Unfortunately no Striated Grasswrens despite concerted effort but did turn up a nice group of Hall's Babblers. 2-3 Plum-headed finches found amongst Zebra Finches along with Spinifex Pigeon at southern side of Top Crossing site with good birding down to Cragg's Grave site (despite feral cat being present), no Pictorella Finches however (nor at Logan's Falls). Also came across small dunnart (sp) on road at night and sighted small unidentified marsupial (bandicoot or potoroo size/ shape/ gait) at Bough Shed Hole campsite at night (without spotlight handy unfortunately). Nothing of similar size appears on any mammal list for the park I have seen - any ideas? Carl Billingham
Tue 26 Apr	Spotted Quail-thrush White Rock Spring Mountain Conservation Park One male flew up from the side of the main track on the ascent to Spring Mountain and called from a perch. Other highlights included a group of 4 Painted Button-quail, Varied Sittella (race leucocephala) and a Peregrine Falcon seeing off a Wedge-tailed Eagle above Spring Mountain. Todd Burrows
	Yellow-billed Spoonbill Kedron Brook Wetlands A single bird present this evening with a Royal Spoonbill on marsh below dead trees near Gateway motorway/Toombul Road junction. No sign of juvenile Spotted Harrier seen earlier in Easter weekend, though the weather was pretty poor. Andy Jensen and Stuart Pickering
Mon 25 Apr	Varied Triller Coombabah Lakeland Reserve, Southport Pair near the end of Koala Track. Spangled Drongoes, Coucals and Scarlet Honeyeaters were numerous. Joshua Bergmark
Sun 24 Apr	Musk Duck 7 Mile Lagoon, Lockyer Valley 2 birds Colin Reid, Rob Dougherty
	Powerful Owl Jan Sked Reserve, Cashmere 8am. Adult being mobbed flew in and perched in plain sight for c10 before flying deeper into woods. Chris Attewell
Wed 20 Apr	100+ Nankeen Night Herons Stanage Bay Road What a sight!!!!! Mal & Jan Ibbotson
Tue 5 Apr	15 Dark Phase Eastern Reef Egrets Shoalwater Bay This is the most we have ever seen in one group, there were about Six White-faced Herons with them in the mangroves at high tide. Mal & Jan Ibbotson
Tue 29 Mar	22 Sooty Oystercatchers (in one group) Shoalwater Bay This is the most we have ever seen in one group Mal & Jan Ibbotson
Sun 27 Mar	9 ( 4 x 2+1) Beach Stone-Curlews Shoalwater Bay These birds were sighted at five different locations, over a two week period Mal & Jan Ibbotson

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