Birdline Victoria
Published sightings for the week ending 17 Aug 2014.
Sun 17 Aug Powerful Owl Studley Park, Kew
I was alerted by alarm calls of Bell Miners near their colony at Dights
Falls end of Galatea Point.
Dave Dickson
Red-whiskered Bulbul Bundoora
For those interested in ticking plastics Bulbul still showing well this
morning (around 8.30 am) in Bryson Crtt and Carbeen Dve. All sightings
appear to be within 100 m of this location but bird not always present.
Was heard upon arrival and allowed very close approach which possibly
does not support the 'wild-bird theory'.
Scott Baker
Sat 16 Aug Wood Sandpiper Dandenong Valley Wetland
Solitary bird
Stephan Megroz
Fri 15 Aug Olive-backed Oriole Banyule Flats Reserve
One calling in morning from red gums in billabong. 2 Yellow-faced
Honeyeaters nearby beside Yarra River.
Richard Loyn
Red-kneed Dotterel Yarrawonga
88 birds seen in a shallow flooded paddock by Hicks Road. Not a rare
species locally but the high count and timing (usually a late spring
and summer bird around here) is unusual.
Michael Ramsey
Swift Parrot Gilpin Park Brunswick
Swifties still there this morning as previously reported. I saw up to
four, probably juveniles flittering from tree to tree not far from
Pearson Street. Thanks to everyone who has been putting these sitings
on Birdline.
Richard Arnold
Noisy Friarbird Price Park Viewbank
Noisy Friarbird quietly feeding in flowering gum along walking track
below toilets at approx. 9.15am
Brendan McDonald
Red-whiskered Bulbul Bundoora
Bird seen on top of bare tree on private property in Bryson Crt.
Bundoora just back form corner Carbeen Drv. as previously reported on
Birdline
Brendan McDonald
Swift Parrot La Trobe University Bundoora Campus
A dozen or so Switties still present along North side of car park 8 .
Brendan McDonald
Thu 14 Aug Latham's Snipe Growling Frog Golf Course
Seen one Latham's Snipe around the back near the bird hide. An early
visitor.
Aleks Arsoski
Swift Parrot Gilpin Park, Brunswick
Around 4.30pm at least 30 Swift Parrots in Eucalypts close to Pearson
St (as previously reported).
Scott Baker
Swift Parrot Gilpin Park, Brunswick
At least 6 Swift Parrots seen at the Pearson St end of Gilpin Park.
Thanks for the initial posting Nicole & Paul.
Philip Jackson & Frank Mitchell
Rose-ringed Parakeet (Indian Ringneck) McKinnon
An Indian Ringneck was observed perched next to some Spotted Doves on a
house roof in Glen Orme Ave, McKinnon. I presume an escapee.
Lewis Hiller
Brolga Williams Landing Wetland
Two Brolgas reported at the wetland in Reserve C. Possibly the closest
record to Melbourne CBD in a long while? Poor photo attached.
Matt Hatton via David Wilson
Wed 13 Aug Brown Cuckoo-dove Croajinolong National Park approx
-37.4580, 149.8380
An unmistakable large brown pigeon (female). Observed for about 10
minutes, sitting half way up a gum tree about 300 M south from the
start of Lakeview track, Croajinolong NP (north of Mallacoota inlet,
access via Maxwell's Rd)
Angus Hartshorn
Regent Honeyeater Magenta Rd, Chiltern-Mt Pilot NP
It seems the unbanded male from Teal Track a few months ago has moved.
Matt found the bird today, still making abbreviated Red Wattlebird
mimicry, adjacent to Magenta Rd about 300m west of the intersection
with Greenhill Rd (i.e. back towards Magenta Mine).
Matt Lincoln via Dean Ingwersen
Tue 12 Aug Slender-billed Prion Point Roadknight.
SBP found beachcast around noon today. Longish bill, culminicorn gap of
>5mm between nostril and bill hook, straight bill sides and small black
tail tip suggested this sp.
Steve Davidson - The Melbourne Birder
Mon 11 Aug Swift Parrot Gilpin Park, Brunswick
12 Swift Parrots in the park today, seem to be hanging about the
Pearson Street end. They have been around for a few days.
Nicole Spillane and Paul Jacobson
Sun 10 Aug Red-necked Avocet Serendip Sanctuary
I think that this is the first record of this species at Serendip. Seen
in Lake Serendip feeding with Black-winged Stilts.
Ruth Woodrow & Paul Dodd
Thu 7 Aug Sooty Albatross Pt Lonsdale lighthouse offshore
Uniformly dark, graceful and shapely albatross. ~80% wingspan of a Shy
Albatross. Long narrow wings, occasionally hump-backed like a Shy
Albatross, wedge shaped tail; consistently, with one exception when it
rose quite high, it was gliding low, slowly and gracefully over the
water. Occasional graceful shallow wing-beats. Uniformly dark sooty
brown with a dark bill with no distinguishing features or paler
contrasts.
Craig Morley
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