Birdline Victoria Weekly Update

Birdline Victoria

Published sightings for the week ending 2 Jun 2013.

Sun 2 Jun	White-fronted Honeyeater, Diamond Firetail Lonsdale Flora and Fauna Reserve White-fronted Honeyeater A small but largely black and white bird with yellow on wings and unmistakable white face markings of white-fronted HE, about 4 Diamond Firetail seen in and around small collection of drooping sheoaks Drive around this excellent yellow gum and stringybark woodland location with BirdLife Horsham, starting at Lake Rd finishing in a central location beside a grazing paddock Samantha Greiner
Sun 2 Jun	Northern Shoveler Western Treatment Plant The Northern Shoveler is still present and this morning was in company with two dozen Australasian Shovelers in a pond on the western side of Lake Borrie. Pasting the co-ordinates -38.010602,144.565873 into Google Maps (satellite view) will identify the actual pond which is approachable from the east across the track separating the two largest Lake Borrie ponds (9 and 24). Vik Dunis
	Common Bronzewing Royal Park, Parkville 3 birds in the east of the park. Chris Lester
	Azure Kingfisher Bunyip State Park First I have recorded here in many visits - Diamond Creek near the Camp Road crossing. An Olive Whistler nearby as well. Tim Bawden
	Double-banded Plover Toora Beach (Nooramunga Marine Park) Dozen or more Double-banded Plovers in various stages of plumage amongst large number of Red-necked Stints on mud flats to right of hide. Very cold SW wind. David Dickson
	Black Falcon Kow Swamp - Mitiamo Rd North of Pyramid Hill Two very co-operative & photographic friendly Black Falcons seen perched on a farm fence adjacent to the Kow Swamp - Mitiamo Rd this afternoon. Keith & Judy Humphreys
	Rose Robin Pound Bend, Warrandyte A male Rose Robin was seen this morning flitting about in riverside trees a short distance North of the main car park, clockwise on the circuit track (also reported by Sonja Ross early last month). It stayed around long enough for good views and some ID photos (one attached). Alan and Hazel Veevers
Sat 1 Jun	Grey Goshawk Yarrowee River, near Mount Pleasant, Ballarat White morph Grey Goshawk observed sitting in a tree, calling. Also seen in flight, being mobbed by two magpies. Inka Veltheim
	Arctic Jaeger Elster Creek, Elwood A rather late Arctic Jaeger was harassing Silver Gulls and even a Pacific Gull. I am not 100% sure about the identity of the bird being chased in the photo. There were also 4 Great Egrets in the Elster Creek area today that’s 4 more than usual at this site! 1 was on the Elwood Foreshore, 1 in the Elwood Canal and 2 just upstream from Glenhuntly Rd in the narrow bluestone channel). There was also a Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike next to Point Ormond hill (quite uncommon here at this time of year). Also of interest was a small pod of about 5 Burrunan Dolphins hanging around about 200m off Point Ormond for over an hour. Gio Fitzpatrick
	Spotted Harrier Gilpin Park, Brunswick Quite surprised to see a Spotted Harrier flying over Gilpin Park this morning, being mobbed by a Silver Gull and a Little Raven. Nicole Spillane & Paul Jacobson
Fri 31 May	Red-kneed Dotterel, Black-winged Stilt, Great Egret, Royal Spoonbill Albert Park Lake Seen in wetland area near Albert Road. Two Red-kneed Dotterels, 5 Black-winged Stilts including 2 juveniles. Common but much appreciated. Debbie Lustig
	Freckled Duck, Australasian Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck Lake Hamilton Beach, Hamilton Freckled Duck (1) sleeping on sand bar west side of beach. Australasian Shoveler (8) & Pink-eared Duck (6) preening and bathing on edge of sand bar. Samantha Greiner
Thu 30 May	Swift Parrot, Olive-backed Oriole You Yangs Regional Park Walking through the Western Plantation for about an hour. Overcast, following morning showers. Swift Parrot (4) Seen briefly a couple of times moving between trees. Olive-backed Oriole (2) Surprisingly late sightings. Called a couple of times. Possibly a third bird. Russell Woodford
Wed 29 May	Southern Boobook Mill Park Very approachable Boobook roosting in a street tree in Mill Park. Only 3-4 metres off the ground allowing me to walk beneath it. One of our tree crew members was about to cut the branch off when he saw the bird. Bernie McRitchie
Tue 28 May	Little Lorikeet, Swift Parrot Lonsdale Flora and Fauna Reserve Saw approximately ten Swift Parrots and four Little Lorikeets feeding in Yellow Gums. Ian Morgan, Brian Cordes, Tim Mintern
Tue 28 May	Diamond Firetail and Grey-crowned Babbler Airstrip Rd, Euroa Two firetails were seen near the start of Airstrip Rd, adjacent to the Euroa exit from the Hume Highway. Two babblers were observed just north of Drysdale Rd. These were the highlights of a week around Euroa while undertaking vegetation surveys. John Harris - Wildlife Experiences
Mon 27 May	Rose Robin Shepherd's Bush, Glen Waverley Had a great view of a Rose Robin in the dogs prohibited area of Shepherds Bush. Also good to see 1 Bassian Thrush in same area. Unfortunately didn't have camera but had good look through binos. Nick Bradsworth
Sat 25 May	Rose-ringed Parakeet Eastwood Golf Course, Kilsyth Accompanying a flock of Australian King Parrots. David Spicer
	Banded Stilt, Red-necked Avocet, Double-banded Plover Vaughan Island, Pomborneit East While inspecting a property on the edge of Lake Corangamite we saw large flocks of shorebirds. Estimated numbers of Banded Stilts between 1000 and 2000, Red-necked Avocets in the low 100's and 30 to 40 Double-banded Plovers some still in breeding plumage. Also saw several large rafts of Hoary-headed Grebes and a few Red-capped Plovers. Thats just at the southern end of this large Western District Lake. Andrew McCutcheon, Rob Youl et al
	Grey-crowned Babbler Wakiti Creek Resort, Kotupna After some searching stumbled across a pair of Grey-crowned Babblers at the wakiti church area, birds were about 60 metres from church in low understorey, were being harassed by 3 noisy miners... Managed some decent shots for Identification purposes Philip Peel
Fri 24 May	Red-necked Stint Coliban water treatment plant, Epsom A lone bird seen feeding amongst red-necked avocets in Lagoon 7. first time i've seen such a wader at this location in 2 years of regular visits...though I am advised it was spotted by the Victorian Birdlife group doing a tour on Apl 28th.. Ian Mayo
Tue 21 May	Swift Parrots Crusoe Reservoir, Bendigo 3 Swifties flying north over Crusoe Reservoir. Miles Geldart, [park ranger ] per Ken Dredge

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