Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 15 Jan 2012.

Sun 15 Jan	Oriental Cuckoo Anstead Bush Reserve One at Anstead Bush Reserve this morning. Also by the river an Intermediate Egret in breeding plumage with bright red legs and a black bill (possibly very dark red - the light was pretty dull). I can find no references to IEs with black bills - and it wasn't a Little, nor an Eastern Great. Rod Gardner
	Sooty term South Stradbroke Island juvenile bird observed patrolling the coast line around the sand pipe. Single animal seen on two occasions amoungst a large mixed flock of Crested and Little terns. Brendan Cook
Sat 14 Jan	Spotless Crake Strong Rd, Dayboro Pair with one young (Coords -27.208954, 152.839425) Tom Tarrant
	Red-tailed Tropicbird Sunshine Coast Pelagic Also seen were 1 Buller's Shearwater, 2 Hutton's Shearwater, 16 Tahiti Petrel Greg Roberts & 11 other participants
	Bridled Tern Sunshine Coast Pelagic Also seen were 30 Sooty Terns, 2500 Common Terns & 100 White-winged Terns Greg Roberts & 11 other participants
Fri 13 Jan	Banded Lapwing Banool Road Banded Lapwing (9) In Paddock on south side of road Kate & Ray Kellman
Thu 12 Jan	Plum-headed Finch Cement Mills Plum-headed Finch (4) 4 birds perched on fence line east-side of road ca. 1km south of Gore. Wet rank grassy area Kate & Ray Kellman
Wed 11 Jan	Horsfield's Bushlark Cement Mills Road Horsfield's Bushlark (3) 3 birds on perched on top fence line on east side or road. Brown form with streaking on breast, white edges to tail, fluttering flight with droopy tail. Kate & Ray Kellman
	Grey Goshawk Bundaberg It was sitting on the roof of my bird cage in the backyard and then flew into a tree. Unfortunately appears to have an injury but was flying ok. Cheryl Mickan
Sun 8 Jan	Spotless Crake MInnippi Parklands 8:30am Sunday. Very distant views (from E side of lake) of single bird on the southern tip of the island. It then flew across and landed on the narrow low dike that almost separates the two parts of the lake. (severely cropped photo attached) Mat Gilfedder
Fri 6 Jan	Black Bittern Woodgate NP Probably a pair, off the boardwalk in the paperbark swamp, close to the entrance along Acacia St. One bird seen well, the other poorly. Coords -25.11283, 152.56472 Harry and Eleanor Zawacki, Tom Tarrant
	Semipalmated Plover Bundaberg Found by Chris Barnes near Bundaberg on privately owned land. Since seen by Nev & Jann Capell, Bill & Jack Moorhead. 2 further expeditions on Fri afternoon and Saturday morning failed to find it. Nev Capell
Thu 5 Jan	Bush Hen Maroochy River Two birds were seen in garden which is near forest and close to fields - both moved to near dam close by-had been heard calling days prior to sighting Yvonne Sparks

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