Birdline Tasmania Weekly Update

Birdline Tasmania

Published sightings for the week ending 16 Sep 2012.

Sun 16 Sep	Latham's Snipe Goulds Lagoon Flushed at 1730 from north-eastern end of main lagoon - settled on north-western side. Flushed again - flew around beyond cormorant perching eucalypt. Counted 40 hardheads this evening Rodger Willows
	Grey goshawks ( white morph) Nelson Rd Mt Nelson, bend 3 A pair of grey goshawks (white morph) seen in top of large conifer. Chased away by a very stroppy Forest Raven. One flew back and stayed in a tree for about 5 minutes. Fiona Wilson and Mark Veitch
Sat 15 Sep	Hardhead Gould's Lagoon About 30. Seems to be a bit unusual for this site. JJ Harrison
	Grey Petrel, Soft-plumaged Petrel, Sooty Albatross Eaglehawk Neck pelagic A nice selection of birds seen on a Saturday pelagic off Eaglehawk Neck. Best were two sightings of Grey Petrel, a Sooty Albatross and 2 Soft-plumaged Petrels. Rohan Clarke et al.
Fri 14 Sep	Grey-backed Storm-Petrel (beachwashed), Swift Parrots Pirates Bay A beachwashed Grey-backed Storm Petrel at the Jetty end of Pirates Bay. Also bout 10 Swift Parrots feeding on flowering eucalypts in 'Doo-town' about 500 m back from the Blowholes carpark. Rohan Clarke
	Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Battery Point 1' Cell Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike. Two birds in front of Jackman & McRoss early in the morning. My first sighting of the summer. Ian L.
Thu 13 Sep	Swift Parrots Lambert Park, Sandy Bay A second Swift Parrot sighting for the day; ten birds near Churchill Avenue just above Lambert Park. Murray Lord
	Swift Parrot Hobart Airport A flock of a dozen birds over the car park. Murray Lord
Wed 12 Sep	Pied Cormorant York St Reserve, Inglis R, Wynyard Single bird perched in tree with 3 Great Cormorants. My first sighting of this sp in Tas in 35y obs. Richard Ashby
Mon 10 Sep	Black Currawong Sisters Beach Single bird. This sp seen or heard only three times in 15y of obs in Sisters Beach and surrounding Rocky Cape Nat Park. Erica Ashby
	Hardhead Margate Hardhead (10) Half of the birds diving to feed in the dam. Photographed. First time seen at this site. Rob Hamilton

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