Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 18 Mar 2012.

Sat 17 Mar	Oriental Cuckoo Rush Creek Road near Dayboro Two birds (inc one 'hepatic') still present on Saturday morning. Tom Tarrant, Mike & Linda Lewis
	Oriental Cuckoo Anstead Bush Reserve Still one bird present, which flew off high northwards. Rod Gardner
	Grey-faced (Great-winged) Petrel Southport Pelagic - off the shelf 1 or 2 birds today. Also 1 Providence Petrel, 4 Wilson's Storm Petrels and the usual Wedge-tailed, Flesh-footed and Hutton's Shearwaters. A few Caspian and Common Terns on the way out. Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
	Tahiti Petrels Southport Pelagic - off the shelf 10-15 today Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
	Arctic Jaeger Southport Pelagic 4 birds today inshore Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
	Pomerine Jaeger Southport Pelagic - off the shelf c17 today including some nice adults Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
	Red-footed Booby Southport Pelagic - off the shelf 2 sub-adults today. 3rd record for Southport Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
	Long-tailed Jaeger Southport Pelagic - off the shelf an adult and 1st summer bird today. This is a rare species of SEQ Rob Morris (and all on board inc. Paul Walbridge)
Wed 14 Mar	Bourke's Parrot, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, Hall's Babbler, Chirruping Wedgebill Eulo Bore With Bowra out of action I had to find these birds the old-fashioned way. 'Eulo' Bore (Padabilla or nine-mile bore, whatever you like to call it) was productive with Bourke's Parrot feeding young, Chirruping Wedgebill and Budgerigar. Chestnut-breasted Quail-Thrush was found 5km east of the bore on the north side of the road. Hall's Babbler was found on the south side of the highway, 7.5km east of the bore. White-browed Treecreeper was found in dense mulga, north side of the road, 14.8km east of the bore. Nick Leseberg
Tue 13 Mar	Turquoise Parrot (4); Plum-headed Finch (2); Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Old Wallangarra Road, near Wallangarra Other goodies included Peregrine Falcon, Diamond Firetail and Crested Shrike-tit at this always productive site Andrew Stafford
	Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Junction track, Girraween NP Lucky to stumble on this gem (was not calling) Andrew Stafford
Sun 11 Mar	Blue-billed Duck Lake Galletly A male and female on the far corner of the lake along with Pink-eared and Plumed Whistling Ducks. Also Yellow-billed Spoonbill. Nick Leseberg

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