Birdline Central & Southern Queensland Weekly Update

Birdline Central & Southern Queensland

Published sightings for the week ending 26 May 2013.

Sun 26 May	Freckled Duck, Australasian Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate 1 Freckled Duck (imm. male?), 4 Australasian Shoveler (3m, 1f), 7+ Pink-eared Duck (courtship display), 1 Water Rat, (unfortunately no sign of the previously seen Cotton Pygmy Geese) Nikolas Haass & Raja Stephenson
	Crested Shrike-tit D'Aguilar National Park (Maiala) One adult bird feeding amongst shed bark, just off the trail right where it begins at the picnic ground carpark. Seen at ~1pm, apparently unperturbed by all the trail walkers and picnic-goers. Russell Yong & Jesse Rowland
	New Holland Honeyeater D'Aguilar National Park (Maiala) One adult bird feeding in a heavily-flowering Syzygium, canopy height ~25-30m. Seen at 12:35pm on the 1.2km-long circuit just out and downhill of the picnic ground, where the boardwalk crosses a large gully with bangalow palms. The bird hung around feeding despite being intermittently disturbed by Yellow-faced Honeyeaters and an Eastern Spinebill. It gave good views in consistently excellent light for over 10 minutes, with the white eye apparent and diagnostic. Russell Yong & Jesse Rowland
	Restless Flycatcher Lake Samsonvale One adult bird at the Gold Scrubs Ln cemetery, in the trees over the overgrown boat ramp on the left. Seen at ~9am. Very and consistently vocal, including some rather odd variations on the 'scissors-grinding' theme. Russell Yong & Jesse Rowland
	Little Eagle Camp Hill Pale phase bird flew over house at 1055, mobbed by Crows and Magpies Stuart Pickering
	Red-capped Robin Oxley Creek Common Male bird still present on path between 2 concrete bridges, also female/imm Rose Robin in same area and a Spotted Harrier over the paddocks Stuart Pickering & Rod Gardner
Sat 25 May	Black Kite North Tivoli 1' Cell 800 + Black Kites at landscape supplies producer at North Tivoli, Ipswich (private property, strictly no access without permission). Observers Margaret Cameron & Meg Gordon. Main count by Margaret Cameron following double counting by both observers that verified consistency in results. Kites have been at site for about 2 months. Midday count 800 approx.; late pm count 1035. Meg Gordon & Margaret Cameron
Fri 24 May	Hoary-headed Grebe Lake Galletly, University Queensland, Lawes At least 5 birds associating with the many Aust. grebes. Tim Wunsch
Thu 23 May	Swamp Harrier Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate Single bird, David Redhead
	Spotted Harrier Nathan Road Wetlands Reserve, Kippa Ring 2 Adults and a Swamp Harrier. c20 Glossy Ibis David Redhead
	Australasian Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck, Cotton Pygmy Goose Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate 4 Australasian Shovelers, several Pink-eared Ducks and a pair of Cotton Pygmy Geese. Raja Stephenson & Marie Lister
	Common Myna Roma Further to my sighting of a single Common Myna at Windorah, there were at least 2 Common Mynas next to the Railway Lakes Park in Roma. This is more than 200km west of closest sighting recorded in the Atlas. Sean Dooley
	Red Capped Robin Oxley Creek Common Single male in full plumage - 4.30pm in setting sunlight - on left just past concrete bridge before track down to Pelican Lagoon Steve Cunningham
Tue 21 May	Red-necked Avocet Deception Bay Foreshore 100 plus on mud flats John Dennison
Mon 20 May	Common Myna Windorah A seemingly solitary individual in the town. A long, long way west. Sean Dooley
	Black Kite, Little Eagle, Swamp Harrier Caboolture Airfield At least 100 Black Kites at the airfield seen from the Bruce Highway turn off to Caboolture. Included 55 birds on the ground. Also 1 Little Eagle and 1 Swamp Harrier around Beerburrum turn off of the Bruce Highway. Tim Siggs
	Pink-eared Duck (5) Dowse Lagoon, Sandgate Another eremaea first for Dowse Lagoon today with five Pink-eared Ducks joining the pair of Cotton Pygmy Geese in the North West corner. Nearby was the Freckled Duck that appeared over two weeks ago. The Hoary-headed Grebe reported by Ged Tranter yesterday was again in front of the bird hide. The Shovelers seem to have moved on. Steve Murray

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