Birdline Australia Weekly Update

Birdline Australia

Published sightings for the week ending 7 Aug 2011.

Sun 7 Aug	Arctic Tern Hillarys Boat Harbour , Western Australia Further to yesterday's posting, Jeff Davies has kindly looked at a few photos of the bird and confirmed that the bird is an Arctic Tern (1st summer), so this may be a good chance to see this species, which is a rare visitor to the Perth coast. It's possible that it arrived during the bout of strong westerlies that blew through late last week, over last weekend and into the start of this week. per John Graff
Sat 6 Aug	Commic Tern Hillarys Boat Harbour, Perth, Western Australia A "commic" tern has been present the last few days at Hillarys Boat Harbour in Perth, and was still showing well this morning flying around the marina and also perched on a jetty with Crested Terns. The best area to look for it is from along the southern harbour wall/groyne. Park near AQWA (the Aquarium of WA) and walk out along the groyne until you reach the outer harbour - the bird often flies along the rock walls here, and sometimes rests with the Crested Terns. The bird was first seen on Thursday by Michael Hancock, then again on Friday morning by Ted & Maureen Cawley, and subsequently by others on Friday afternoon and this morning. The ID is still not settled, but Arctic Tern is probably the favourite at this stage Per John Graff
Fri 5 Aug	Pond Heron sp. West Island, Cocos-Keeling Islands A pond heron in non-breeding plumage has been photographed on West Island, Cocos Islands. It is hanging around the township and runway area. ID as Chinese, Javan (or Indian!) near impossible in this plumage. per Rohan Clarke
Wed 3 Aug	Regent Honeyeater Morriset Hospital Sub-Station, New South Wales Upgraded shot of one of the 10 birds seen at Morisset today Tony Dawe
Tue 2 Aug	Northern Shoveler Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria Seen well in a short visit around 4pm off the Bird Hide. Also 2 adult Sea-eagles Dave Torr and others
Mon 1 Aug	Painted Honeyeater, Scarlet-cheasted Parrot Gluepot entrance rd, Taylorville Station, South Australia 1 male painted honeyeater seen foraging and singing. 4 scarlet-chested parrots. Peter Waanders
	Chestnut Rail Denham Island, Queensland Pair in Mangroves across channel from Gununa Community on Mornington Island, Seen or heard regularly at four Mangrove sites on eastern end of the Island. Phil Venables
	Plumed Whistling-Duck Pambula , New South Wales There are 12 Plumed Whistling-Ducks at Panboola, Pambula on the Far South Coast NSW, a first for us here. Max Sutcliffe reported them to me and photographed them resting on a grassy bank beside a waterway behind the Old Bar within Panboola, best accessed from Bullara St, Pambula. Barbara Jones
	Elegant Imperial Pigeon Queensland, Queensland It has just come to our notice from Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service that there were two unconfirmed Elegant Imperial Pigeon sightings back in February 2011 around the time of Cyclone Yasi. We have put a few more details on our blog. Per Keith Fisher
Sun 31 Jul	Star Finch and Buff-banded Rail Karumba, Queensland 12 Star Finches seen at a waterhole near the Karumba dumpsite over an hour between 4.30 and 5.30 pm. Two adults birds (one with four juveniles still being fed) and one single subadult (with red beak and tail but not yet developed spots) and a group of five subadults (various beak colour stages but no spots). Also watering at the same place were Zebra Finches and Double-barred Finches. A Buff-banded Rail came in to drink as well. Star Finches sparse in Queensland and good to see evidence of current breeding success. Peter Valentine
Sat 30 Jul	Scarlet-chested Parrot Gluepot, South Australia At least 8 birds were seen with females checking hollows. Same site as Helga Kieskamp had seen them on 23rd July Tom Wheller, Geoff Jones, et al
Sun 24 Jul	Gouldian Finch and Hooded Parrot 5 east of the Stuart Highway on the Edith Falls Road, Northern Territory At a known birding site, on a creek, 5 km in from the junction of the Edith Falls Rd and the Stuart Highway, in recently burnt grass close to the Creek, a mixxed flock of Double-barred, Masked and Long-tailed Finches included 2 Gouldian Finches. Also present were 5 Hooded Parrots, Little Woodswallows, Rufous Whistlers and White-winged Trillers. Alan Morris & Neil Friswell
Sat 23 Jul	Gouldian Finch and Hooded Parrot Chinamans Creek, 18 km W of Katherine, Northern Territory In the strip of land between the Highway and the old road, close to the eastern side of Chinamans Creek, where a recent fire had partly burnt the long grass a mixed flock of birds were observed between 7-800 hrs that included 32 Hooded Parrots, 12 Peaceful Doves, 2 Gouldian Finches (adult plus juvenile), 4 Long-tailed Finches,12 White-winged Trillers, 2 Rufous Whistlers and 2 White-bellied Cuckoo-shrikes. Alan Morris & Neil Friswell
Wed 13 Jul	Cattle Egret Onkaparinga River Recreation Reserve, South Australia Cattle Egret (1) Seen feeding with White-faced Herons amongst grasses that had choked much of southern-most large pond. David Hartland & Michael Wood
Tue 12 Jul	Scarlet-chested Parrot Gluepot Reserve, South Australia Noel Luff, Fiona Parkin, Greg Oakley, and Tim Dolby

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