The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period
Monday, November 21, 2011 to Sunday, November 27, 2011:
Area: SA
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Location: Port Willunga on the beach northerly from the Star of the Sea about
500-1000metres along the beach
Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) (1) Four healthy chicks light brownish
sitting on the rocks while tide came in. Parents seen later in fenced off area
along the beach with signage asking dog owners to keep the dogs at water line
on a lead to protect the plovers. The locals appear to have taken ownership of
the plovers and all dog walkers complied while I was watching. Birds flew to
fenced off area when dogs were on beach.
Reported by: Jean Tucker on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011
Location: Hahndorf
Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (10) 8 male and 2 female/immature
Blue-billed Duck on large dam at Jones Road Hahndorf.
Reported by: Bob Snell on Monday, November 21, 2011
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Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011
Location: Balhannah
White-necked Heron (Ardea pacifica) (1) One, feeding close to road on Hanna
Lake, Jones Road, Balhannah.
Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) (1) One, in same area as White-necked Heron
above.
Reported by: Bob Snell on Monday, November 21, 2011
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Date: Monday, November 21, 2011
Location: Angas River,Belvidere (5km SE of Strathalbyn)
Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) (1) Single bird observed on private
property.It was feeding on native grasses growing on the riverbank before being
chased of by a Red Wattlebird.
Red-backed Kingfisher (Todiramphus pyrrhopygius) (1) 1 individual in same area
as above,sitting in Red Gums and calling throughout the day.This is my first
record for the area.John Eckert in the Natural History of Strathalbyn and
Goolwa Districts listed it as "a rare visitor every few years".
Reported by: Nathaniel Doecke on Monday, November 21, 2011
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Date: Monday, November 21, 2011
Location: Beside the Murray near Overland Corner
Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook) (2) An adult, with a full-sized but very pale
and fluffy juvenile sitting close by, were perched about 10 metres off the
ground in a river red gum near the river bank.
White-necked Heron (Ardea pacifica) (12) It is hard to estimate the number of
birds as we saw them singly or in pairs over 3 days, but there would have been
at least 12. One was sitting on a nest.
Black-tailed Native-hen (Gallinula ventralis) (600) Again very hard to estimate
numbers, but we saw several groups of 100 or more birds as well as many smaller
groups, on both sides of the river.
Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx basalis) (1) The cuckoo was calling on
and off very close to our camp, but was mostly silent. It was eventually
spotted in the middle of a small leafy eucalypt, very well disguised between
the green leaves and dappled light. A pair of wrens flew into the tree and
stirred it into movement, otherwise we might never have spotted it. We never
saw it out in the open.
We recorded 49 species in a day and a half, and there were another 5 or 6 birds
we could not identify as they were too far away (or failed to sit still).
Despite there being some patches of shallow water with muddy flats, where the
floods of early 2011 had receded, we did not see a single wader.
Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Monday, November 21, 2011
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Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Location: The Washpool Aldinga
Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) (1) Glossy Ibis seen at the Washpool over
the past week, initially 6, quite timid feeding in samphire then hiding in
taller reeds. Best views yesterday when I viewed from the car, 8 Glossy Ibis,
feeding busily and coming quite close. Northern side of the wetlands, southern
is drying up fast.
White-necked Heron (Ardea pacifica) (1) one only feeding with the Glossy Ibis.
Reported by: Jean Tucker on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011
Location: Milang
Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) (2) Pair flushed from low grass on the
southern edge of the Snipe sanctuary.Also on 22nd at Wirrina Cove, positively
identified 1 among 50+ Stubble Quail.The quail were flushed while doing Needle
Grass surveys in dense Veldt Grass and Wild Oats.
Reported by: Nathaniel Doecke on Friday, November 25, 2011
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Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011
Location: Clayton Bay
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) (1) One Latham's Snipe flushed from pool
adjacent to Alexandrina Drive.
Reported by: Bob Snell and Kevin Williams on Friday, November 25, 2011
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Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011
Location: Milang
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) (3) Three Latham's Snipe in Snipe
Reserve, about 30m from board walk.
White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus) (2) Two White-browed
Woodswallow over Nurragi CP.
Reported by: Bob Snell and Kevin Williams on Friday, November 25, 2011
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