Birdline South Australia Weekly Update

Birdline South Australia

Published sightings for the week ending 17 Feb 2013.

Sat 16 Feb	Cape Barren Goose Narrung Road @ 35 41 15S 139 13 23E Cape Barren Goose (200) Probably more but hard to see birds beyond dam in low lying area. Keith & Lindsay Fisher
Sat 16 Feb	Pink-eared Duck Lake Albert - marshes at southern end. Pink-eared Duck (700) About 650 in one raft with others scattered around. Keith & Lindsay Fisher
Sat 16 Feb	Black Falcon Princess Highway at 35 47 38S 139 21 01E Large dark black Falcon, long wings and long tail, very flat wings not upswept like Brown Falcon. Larger bulkier looking bird than Brown Falcon did not see any buff edging to wings, appeared all dark. Keith & Lindsay Fisher
Sat 16 Feb	Glossy Ibis, Painted Finch Amata Waste Water Treatment Plant Glossy Ibis (4) On overflow section of ponds again. Painted Finch between 30-50 birds in a few small flocks flying low over ponds and overflow section of plant. Landed in northern mulga woodland allowing for sustained views. My only other previous record for the APY Lands is from Alalka Waterhole (2004) near Ernabella Community in much more steep and rocky terrain with (almost) permanent water. David Hartland
Fri 15 Feb	Glossy Ibis Amata Waste Water Treatment Plant Glossy Ibis (4) Initially flushed one bird from Crake infested muddy patch, other 3 located in deeper water with more cover. Birds regrouped later to give sustained, close views David Hartland
Wed 13 Feb	Rock Parrot, Black Faced Cormorant and others Ceduna and Fowlers Bay etc Live in Sydney and just spent four days visiting friends living in Ceduna. Thought I would post a quick report on the birds I saw. Around Ceduna saw Rock Parrot, Black Faced Cormorant, Pied, Little Pied and Little Black Cormorant, Greenshank, Pacific Gull, Common Sandpiper, Red Necked Stint, Pelican, Reef Egret (Dark Morph), White Faced Heron, Grey Plover, Red Capped Plover, Singing Honeyeater, Grey Teal, Crested Tern, Caspian Tern, Sooty & Pied Oystercatcher, Sacred Kingfisher, Weebill, Yellow Throated Miner plus a host of other birds such as Galahs, House Sparrows, Starlings, Little (I think) and Australian Ravens etc. At Fowlers Bay, Cactus Bay and Davenport Creek was able to add Ruddy Turnstone, Sandering, Terek Sandpiper, Ringneck Parrot, White Bellied and Wedge Tailed Eagles, Sharp Tailed Sandpiper, Hoary Headed Grebe, Fairy Tern, Dusky Woodswallow, Musk Duck, Grey Butcherbird, Pipits. A total of 51 species. Quite happy with that. Andy Firth
Fri 8 Feb	Hooded Plover Maslin Beach Adult pair on beach at mouth of the creek where it forms a shallow expanse of water. Fingers crossed that they are able to stay at this locality as some untrained dog owners don`t give a dam! Edward Smith 1688
Sat 2 Feb	Black-breasted Buzzard Mt Woodroffe SA Block Black-breasted Buzzard (1) Seen circling on thermals above Amata community around midday Sat. 9/2/13 David Hartland
	Red-kneed Dotterel, Banded Stilt, Whiskered Tern, Orange Chat Amata Waste Water Treatment Plant Red-kneed Dotterel Banded Stilt (1) arrived Sat. 9/2/13 (approx.) - absent before this date Whiskered Tern (1) arrived Sun. 10/2/13 (approx.) - absent before this date Orange Chat (3) one male, two females - sticking to rocky track between two still/deep ponds David Hartland
Sun 27 Jan	Tawney-crowned honeyeater Largs North I am not an avid bird watcher, but love the honeyeaters. I saw this little fellow in my flowering Coolibah eating insects, so I looked up what it was. I have been here over 20 years and have never seen one. Unfortunately, he was too quick/well camouflaged for me to get a photo, but I now have my camera at the ready. Are these common on the Adelaide plains? (Mod note: A very unusual sighting for this area... a photo would be great and no not common on the Adelaide plains!) Russell Oldfield

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