Birdline ACT Weekly Update

Birdline ACT

Published sightings for the week ending 17 Jul 2011.

Sun 17 Jul	White-fronted Chat Coree, Uriarra Road/Mountain Creek Road junction White-fronted Chat (4) 2 Male and 2 female. Up from two the day before reported by Fantram. Alastair Smith
	Crescent Honeyeater, Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Pierce's Creek, Cotter One juvenile Crescent Honeyeater observed and a Chestnut-rumped Heathwren heard. Alastair Smith
Sat 16 Jul	White-fronted Chat Coree, Uriarra Road/Mountain Creek Road junction White-fronted Chat (2) Frank Antram
	Peregrine Falcon Shepherds Lookout Peregrine Falcon (1) Close views (less than 50 metres) of a bird sitting in a dead tree near the lookout. A couple with a dog passed under the tree and stood at the lookout, but the Peregrine remain unfazed by their or my presence. Frank Antram
	Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Grey Currawong, Scarlet Robin, Flame Robin Callum Brae Nature Reserve Fan-tailed Cuckoo (1) Grey Currawong (3) Scarlet Robin (2) Both males Flame Robin (7) 5 males 2 females Also White-winged Chough (21) breeding suspected carrying nesting material Alastair Smith
Fri 15 Jul	White-headed Pigeon Columba leucomela 84 Wybalena Grove Cook ACT 2614 Late yesterday afternoon there was a White-headed Pigeon again in Wybalena Grove in Cook. Quite possibly the same one that Jeannie Gray reported three weeks ago from lower down the hill; it was a female. Stayed hunkered down halfway up a Red Box tree for several minutes. Then after a couple of quiet 'ooms' flew off west. Muriel Brookfield
	Brown Treecreeper, Southern Whiteface, Diamond Firetail Kama Nature Reserve 4 Brown Treecreeper, one with a yellow band on right leg; one with a white band on right leg 3 x Southern Whiteface and a single Diamond Firetail. Also observed were a feast of raptors including male and female Brown Goshawk, 3 Wedge-tailed Eagle including one juvenile, 2 Nankeen Kestrels and Brown Falcon. Alastair Smith
Thu 14 Jul	Nankeen Kestrel Narrabundah Hill Nature Reserve Duffy ACT Loud calling and circling high in the air of two Kestrel. One bird perched on the top edge of a power stanchion across the western edge of the reserve calling loudly. The other bird came and perched on the opposite side of the stanchion. I looked away but was soon drawn to look again by different louder sounds of copulation. The first bird that had perched on the stanchion had flown across to the other and copulation was visible. Jean Casburn
Wed 13 Jul	Osprey Cotter Reported by Peter Fullagar. Seen as he was driving through the Cotter. No sign of the bird on 14 July at the Cotter Reserve, Casuarina Sands or along the Murrumbidgee at Uriarra Crossing. Sue Lashko

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