Birdline NSW Weekly Update

Birdline NSW

Published sightings for the week ending 15 Jul 2012.

Sun 15 Jul	Little Eagle, Wedge-tailed Eagle Royal National Park (Wattle Flat) I spotted this Little Eagle gliding South over Wattle Flat near Audley this afternoon. It started to circle and soar higher when a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles flew in from the East and did the same beneath it. I have seen Wedge-tailed Eagles flying over Wattle Flat and other parts of the park before but the Little Eagle is a new raptor tick for me at Royal NP. Excuse the poor photo. Greg McLachlan
	Pacific Baza Ferndale Park, Chatswood, Sydney Upperparts including head appeared brownish in the late afternoon light. Possibly a first winter bird. Lars Ittner, Raja Stephenson, Nikolas Haass
	Spotted Harrier - 1st yr Oolong Rd/Hume Hwy, between Yass and Goulburn Just happened to see it flying up the freeway, and noticed it was a first year bird. Stephen Aveling-Rowe
	Wedge-tailed Eagle Castlereagh Observed the lone male of local pair at approximately 15:30. Passing from the east and over the quarries and escarpment. Ákos Lumnitzer
Sat 14 Jul	Beautiful Firetail, Scarlet Honeyeater, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Curra Moors, Royal National Park Single firetail seen up close and another calling in woodland about 1 km along the track from car park. Scarlet Honeyeater nearby. 2 pairs of YTB Cockatoos with dependent young. Only one Tawny-crowned Honeyeater seen/heard amongst masses of New Hollands and a few White-napeds. Also Red-necked Wallaby, 3 Humpbacked Whales, and a Cunninghams Skink. Eric Finley
	Little Shearwater Sydney Pelagic The avian highlight of today's Sydney pelagic trip was a well seen Little Shearwater, the first sighting from the Halicat in more than two years.(It will require a submission to NSW ORAC) Cetacean highlights were more noteworthy with a Southern Right Whale showing well at the heads on our departure, a group of False Killer Whales briefly seen, and a very cooperative Dwarf Minke Whale which circled the boat at close quarters for several minutes. A Shortfin Mako feeding on our berley at close range was also a highlight for those on board. Roger McGovern and all on the Halicat
Fri 13 Jul	Eastern Osprey Erina Council Depot, Pateman Road Erina pair of Ospreys observed within deport perching on telecommunications tower most days over past two weeks. 3 birds on Wednesday 11th July. Warren Brown, Phil Wood
Thu 12 Jul	Grey Goshawk ( Pure white Morph ) North St. Berry. 2535 N.S.W. Sitting on a high post on private farmland. A magnificent bird! Pauline Bott.
Wed 11 Jul	white-winged chough Paterson Road Springwood NSW Saw a flock of approximately 10 choughs today just happily foraging by the side of the road. They didn't appear to be in a huge hurry to move as my wife and I walked by. Really excited to see them! Christopher Moss
	Square-tailed Kite King Creek, Wauchope A Square-tailed Kite flew low into the garden this morning and casually glided around for a few minutes before suddenly dropping into a large callistemon A Crested Pigeon rocketed out of the bush and after a few minutes, the kite took off pursued by all the local Noisy Miners. When I checked the bush I could see a Crested Pigeon "nest" but with no activity nor contents. Clive Meadows
Tue 10 Jul	White-headed pigeon Pidding Park, Ryde After a walk in Field of Mars reserve - a nice range of bush birds including Fan-tailed Cuckoo and Golden Whistler hanging on in the midst of suburbia - pleasantly surprized to see a White-headed pigeon near Cressy Rd/Buffalo Creek. Robert Griffin
	Banded Lapwing, Ground Cuckoo-shrike 50km west of cobar On a clay pan about 50km west of Cobar were 4 Banded Lapwings and 6 Ground Cuckoo-shrikes. A Fan-tailed Cuckoo was seen in some scrub nearby. Max de Beer
	Black-necked Stork King Creek, Wauchope. 2 birds flying over our place this morning. Clive Meadows & Louise Earnshaw
Mon 9 Jul	Spotted Nightjar Baden Park Rest Area (87km west of Wilcania) Whilst doing some spotlighting around Baden Park rest area a Spotted Nightjar was heard twice in the grassland/light woodland that surrounds this location. Unable to get a view of the bird but it called multiple times before going silent. Max de Beer
	Pacific Baza Terrace Road North Richmond Not often seen around our place. Happily gobbling stick insects snatched from foliage of forest red gums. David Potter
	Rose Robin Bundanoon One bird at home - third record in last few days. Lorne Johnson
	Pacific Baza Cox Park, Carlingford Pacific Baza (1) Immature. Being pusued by Noisy Miners and Currawongs. I have never before seen one in this area. Jenny Stiles
	Pilotbird, Spotted Quail-thrash, Gang Gang Cockatoo, Rose Robin, Scarlet Robin Bungonia State Conservation Area, NSW Some superb birding in Bungonia SCA. Very cold but beautiful day. Lyrebirds were calling from every corner of the park. I observed one bird for nearly 15 minutes. Its call started as car alarm fowowed vy satin bowebird call, kookaburra chorus, again the car alarm, alarm clock and finished with brown thorbill/ white-browed scrubwren chorus. Thornbills and scrubwren were perching on the branches and attacking the lyrebird. Interesting birds seen in the park: one Pilotbird (Molly O'Neil track), two Gang Gang Cockatoo (Orange track), Spotted Quail-thrush ( 2 pairs -Adams Lookout), one Rose Robin (Adams Lokout), Scarlet Robin (males were sitting on every table in the caming grounds). Some of gum trees are still flowering so there were large flocks of honeyeates (mostly White-napeted H, E. Spinebill and small flock of Brown-headed Honeyeaters). Ted Wnorowski
Sun 8 Jul	Grey-fronted Honeyeater and Malleefowl Round Hill NR and Lake Cargelligo 3 Grey-fronted Honeyeaters and a Malleefowl seen near in the old wheat field at Round Hill. A possible Red-lored Whistler was also heard to the NW corner of the wheat field. Also seen in that area were Chestnut Quail-thrush, Southern Scrub-robin, Inland Thornbill, White-fronted Honeyeater, Gilbert's Whistler and Crested Bellbird. On the way to the reserve from town; Cockatiel, Blue Bonnet, Spotless Crake, Black-tailed Nativehen, White-winged Fairywren, Grey-crowned and White-browed Babblers plus many more were seen. Rob Hynson
	Spotless Crake, Black Falcon, Red-necked Avocet Lake Cargelligo Sewerage Works A brief visit to the STW found the wetlands full from May's heavy rains and little sites suitable for Crakes although two Spotless Crakes were seen. To the south of Lake Cargelligo on another temporary wetland a Black Falcon was seen being harassed by a Black-shouldered Kite, and at another nearby temporary wetland were 72 Red-necked Avocets. Other interesting birds at the STW were 8 Australian Shelducks& White-winged Fairy-wrens, and 100's of Great Crested Grebes on the main Lake Alan Morris and Steve Edwards
	Brolga, Black necked Stork, Diamond Dove 10-20km North West of Moree, NSW. Saw 3 Brolgas on a farm dam, very close to an immature Jabiru (lovely sighting). 15+ Diamond Doves were seen along the river. Other birds seen were: A single Silver Gull, a single Caspian Tern and possibly hundreds of Gull billed Terns, Glossy Ibises, Flocks of Musk and Pink eared Ducks as well as Hardheads and Shovelers, Scrubwrens and flocks of Stilt. Curtis Hayne
	Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo West Head Road, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park 60+ Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos heard calling for some minutes and then seen in the distance from Duck Holes Entrance gate crossing West Head Road from south to north around 4.00 pm Rae Lister
	Pink-eared Duck (up to 1000) Hooey Lookout, Fivebough Swamp, Leeton Huge flock of Pink-eared Ducks have taken up residence at the northern end of Fivebough for the past 3 weeks and seems to be growing in size. Spactacle of so many busily feeding in front of the lookout and even more spectacular when they suddenly take off en masse and fly like a huge flock of budgies before settling back onto the water - quite a sight. Max O'Sullivan
	Spangled Drongo Irrawong Reserve, Warriewood, Sydney In addition: 1 Australian Brush-turkey; 2+ Mallard x Pacific Black Duck hybrids and 2 Mallard mutants between approximately 10 pure-looking Pacific Black Ducks; many Rainbow, Scaly-breasted and Musk Lorikeets and good numbers of Scarlet and White-cheeked Honeyeaters in the flowering Swamp Mahoganies; 1 Superb Lyrebird. Photo of the Spangled Drongo: Nikolas Haass & Raja Stephenson
	Cattle Egret, Australasian Figbird Bicentennial Park, Sydney Olympic Park A pair of Cattle Egrets roost on busy traffic light pole cnr Australia Ave and Bennelong Parkway at 5pm. As usual a flock of 20+ FIgbirds roost on a leafless tree between 4-5pm without failure at the Persian 'Obelisk' beside overhead pedestrian bridge. Tun Pin Ong
Sat 7 Jul	Glossy Black Cockatoo Pottsville Environment centre(Northern NSW Coast) 3 birds feeding in a she-oak tree,1400 Hours,very quiet just the sound of the seed husks falling Jo Culican
Fri 6 Jul	Spotted Harrier, Brolga, White-browed Babbler, Black-faced Woodswallow Gilgooma 10' Cell. Private land and Western edge of Piliga Scrub Spotted Harrier Brolga (4) 2 adults and 2 immature feeding in cultivated paddock White-browed Babbler 2 groups on edge of piliga scrub Black-faced Woodswallow (6) Group hawking and landing on stubble in cultivated field Michael Cheers and Kevin Cheers
Thu 5 Jul	Hoary-headed Grebe, Brolga, Bluebonnet, Ground Cuckoo-Shrike Grenville 10' Cell, near Billeroy, 30 km NNE Coonamble A good collection of western birds seen at this site including Hoary-headed Grebe, Brolga (2) Feeding on cultivated paddocks, Bluebonnet, White-winged Fairy-wren, Yellow-throated Miner & Ground Cuckoo-shrike Michael Cheers

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