Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 25 Nov 2012.

Sun 25 Nov	Musk Duck Wongi State Forest & Lake Lenthall Musk Duck (2) Two males. Observed a close distance from a canoe on Lake Lenthall. Both dived when unauthorised vehicles drove along the bank of Lenthalls Dam. Peter Tierney
Sun 25 Nov	Black-breasted Button-quail Beechmont Rd, north of Canungra A pair of Black-breasted Button-quail were seen feeding alongside Beechmont Rd, half way between Canungra and Beechmont. This was in an area directly opposite the exit to the Marian Valley Catholic Church. When I stopped, they moved off the road into Lantana thickets beside the road, where there was evidence of platelets. (Note. The fenceline here had a sign that read "Danger - Military Range Boundary. Laser hazard. Live bombs. No treespass." Obviously BBBQ are more hardy than we think.) Tim Dolby
	Pale-vented Bush-hen Canungra Creek Two very vocal Pale-vented Bush-hen were seen along the Canungra Creek, south of Moriarty Park. They were moving around the creekline thickets immediately south of the encaged 'Leash Free Area for Dogs'. The area is accessed is via Coburg Rd, just north of the concrete causeway. Tim Dolby
	Lewin's Rail, Baillon's Crake, Spotless Crake, Pale-vented Bush-hen Cooroy sewage treatment works, Sunshine Coast All four of these rails were seen this morning at Cooroy Greg Roberts
Sat 24 Nov	Spotted Harrier, Whiskered Terns, Ducks Lockyer Valley Adult Spotted Harrier seen near Lester Road, over 150 Whiskered Terns & 50 White-necked Herons at Water Lane, Kentville. 4 Cotton Pygmy Geese & 10 Glossy Ibis at Lake Clarendon. 10 Banded Lapwings near 7 mile lagoon, Blue-billed Duck at Uni Lakes and 3 Hobbys at various locations. Very few waders around with water levels still high. Stuart Pickering and Andy Jensen
	Australian Painted Snipe Dowse Lagoon Sandgste Male A. Painted Snipe today as well as 4 Latham's Snipe and up to 80 Whiskered Terns Paul Walbridge (via RobMorris)
Wed 21 Nov	Wandering Tattler Alexandra Heads Single Wandering Tattler at Alexander Heads, on rocks in front of the Osprey Hotel. Tim Dolby
	Black-tailed Native-hen moranbah single bird observed clearly from about 10m on wetland on private property south of moranbah kelly matthews and justin watson
Tue 20 Nov	Little Curlew Amberley Airfield A Little Curlew has returned to the airfield in November for the second consecutive year. Bird was observed foraging along the southern end of the airfield before being flushed by a swooping kestrel. Brendan Cook on behalf of Martin Ziviani
	Black-tailed Native-hen Ewen Maddock Dam, Sunshine Coast Very rare species in south-east Queensland Greg Roberts
Mon 19 Nov	Glossy Ibis Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate 12 Glossy Ibis and 30 Magpie Geese, unusually high numbers of both for here. 100 yds to the right of the hide. Ged Tranter
Sun 18 Nov	Red-backed Buttonquail near Gold's Scrub Lane /Mt Samson Rd Intersection Female on main road near turn-off to Samsonvale Cemetery, seen well and photographed. (my first reasonable view on ground in 25 years, TT) John Weigel, Tom Tarrant
Sat 17 Nov	Channel Billed Cuckoos Brisbane Botanical gardens 2 CBC seen near the Alma St entrance to the gardens late afternoon being harassed by Wattlebirds. We were there about 2 hrs and seen them 3 times. Not heard calling at all. Janice and Greg McKay
	White-throated Needletail Bulimba Ck, Carindale Around 8 am hundreds overhead before big storm front. Sheryl Keates
Mon 5 Nov	Grey Grasswren, Eastern Grass Owl, Tawny Grassbird, Yellow Chat Coopers Creek: floodplain east and/or south of Ballera Gas Centre, south-west Queensland. Grey Grasswren (4 sites), Eastern Grass Owl (1 site), Tawny Grassbird (3 sites) and Yellow Chat (many sites, hundreds of birds) recorded during 4-6 Nov on dry floodplain with shallow gutters; in lignum shrub communities commonly with dense, knee- to waist-deep seasonal forbs, sedges and grasses. Details to be formally published in the near future. No public access to these sites but observers are encouraged to be alert for these and other uncommon species in the Channel Country following the recent cluster of wet years. Lynn Pedler, Roger Jaensch, Graham Carpenter and Andrew Black.

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