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Date: 18 Aug 2014 07:56:17 +1000
   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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