Hi Harry,
Not the Southern Highlands, but not very far away; there are generally quite
a few Satin Bowerbirds at the Wollongong Botanic Gardens.
>From Jenny Stiles
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Nyström
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 7:38 AM
To: Birding-Aus
Subject: Back from Finland to Australia, NSW: Sydney, Moss
Vale, Parkes etc.
Hi everyone.
Just a quick update: with already maybe around 80 trip species, the
wishlist has diminished impressively! Thank you all for the help I have
been getting already.
But one bogey we still have: Satin Bowerbird. If anyone knows an active and
accessible bower within the Southern Highlands area, we would be very
grateful. Our options are close to none at the moment.
My best sightings (for now) include: Noisy Pitta, Green Catbird, Azure
Kingfisher, Crested Shrike-tit, Topknot Pigeon (poor views in flight),
Superb Lyrebird (poor views of a shy bird), Bassian Thrush, Australian King
Parrot etc. At least 20 new species already. We dipped on Rockwarbler
today, same with Tawny-crowned HE. And the best is still a Humpback Whale
we saw from the top of Wottamalla (or something like that) waving its fins
further away!
Cheers,
-Harry
4.9.2015 17.26 "Harry Nyström" <> kirjoitti:
> Thanks Jason!
>
> This indeed looks promising! There are of course dozens of other birds on
> my list, so let's hope they are just as easy with Peter leading the way.
> But in the end we only get what we get, and that's it. A lot relies on
> good
> luck and coincidence. But still wishing for a real life wild koala... That
> would definitely be the highlight of my trip.
>
> Cheers,
> -Harry
>
> P.S. My extended list below with emphasis on the ones written in *bold*
> (don't mind the impossible ones):
>
>
>
>
>
> *Emu Australian Brush-turkey Malleefowl King Quail *Whistling Duck
> (either one)
>
>
> *Musk Duck Freckled Duck *Australian Shelduck
> Blue-billed Duck
> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> Australasian Bittern
> Black Bittern
>
> *Nankeen Night Heron *(Any Booby or Frigatebird)
> Square-tailed Kite
>
> *Pacific Baza *Brahminy Kite
> Eastern Osprey
> Crakes and Rails (only have Buff-breasted)
> Brolga
>
> *Buttonquails, any will do *Stone-curlews, either one
>
>
> *Oystercatchers, Pied or Sooty Banded Lapwing *Red-kneed Dotterel
> Inland Dotterel (one can always hope)
> Any Plovers or Dotterels (excl. Black-fronted)
> Australian Painted Snipe
> Any Sandpiper or Stint
> Pratincoles?
> Fairy Tern
> Little Tern
> Sooty Tern
> Whiskered Tern
> White-winged Black Tern
> Gull-billed Tern
> Caspian Tern
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Pacific Gull White-headed Pigeon Brown Cuckoo-dove Emerald Dove Brush
> Bronzewing Diamond Dove Bar-shouldered Dove Wonga Pigeon Wompoo Fruit-dove
> Superb Fruit-dove? Rose-crowned Fruit-dove Topknot Pigeon Pheasant Coucal
> Pacific (Eastern) Koel (not there yet?) Channel-billed Cuckoo (not there
> yet?) *Black-eared Cuckoo
> Shining Bronze-cuckoo
> Pallid Cuckoo
> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> Brush Cuckoo
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Owls! (of course I already have Powerful Owl) Nightjars! Australian
> Owlet-nightjar Dollarbird (not there yet?) Kingfishers (I have Sacred and
> Kookaburra) Rainbow Bee-eater (not there yet?) Glossy Black Cockatoo
> Gang-gang Cockatoo Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo *Long-billed Corella
>
> *Cockatiel *Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
> Musk Lorikeet
> Little Lorikeet (photos)
> Australian Ringneck
> Mulga Parrot
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Turquoise Parrot Budgerigar Eastern Ground Parrot Australian King Parrot
> Superb Parrot Noisy Pitta Superb Lyrebird *Rufous Scrubbird
>
>
>
> *Green Catbird Regent Bowerbird Satin Bowerbird *Red-browed Treecreeper
>
> *Variegated Fairy-wren Splendid Fairy-wren*
>
>
>
>
> *Red-backed Fairy-wren? White-winged Fairy-wren Southern Emu-wren Scarlet
> HE *Tawny-crowned HE
>
> *Crescent HE *White-cheeked HE
>
> *Painted HE *White-naped HE
> Black-chinned HE
> White-eared HE
>
> *Crimson Chat *Orange Chat
>
>
> *Yellow-tufted HE Bell Miner *Mangrove HE?
> Lewin’s HE
> Eastern Bristlebird
> Pilotbird
>
>
> *Rockwarbler Chestnut-rumped Heathwren *Speckled Warbler
> Yellow-throated Scrubwren
> Large-billed Scrubwren
> Mangrove Gerygone
> White-throated Gerygone
> Inland Thornbill
> Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> Southern Whiteface
>
>
>
>
>
> *Australian Logrunner Eastern Whipbird Spotted Quail-thrush Woodswallows
> Grey Currawong *Ground Cuckoo-shrike
> White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
>
> *Common Cicadabird *White-winged Triller
>
> *Varied Sittella *Crested Bellbird
>
> *Crested Shriketit *Olive Whistler
>
>
>
> *Gilbert’s Whistler Golden Whistler Rufous Whistler *Little Shrikethrush
>
>
>
>
>
> *Spangled Drongo Rufous Fantail Black-faced Monarch Leaden Flycatcher
> Satin Flycatcher *Pale-yellow Robin
> Hooded Robin
>
>
>
> *Rose Robin Flame Robin Scarlet Robin *Horsfield’s Bush Lark
> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> White-backed Swallow
> Brown Songlark
> Tawny Grassbird
> Little Grassbird
>
>
>
>
>
> *Bassian Thrush Beautiful Firetail Diamond Firetail (photos) Plum-headed
> Finch Zebra Finch Double-barred Finch*
>
>
> 2015-09-04 2:33 GMT+03:00 Jason McHattan <>:
>
>> That sounds like a great trip Harry.
>>
>> Just a few comments to your list as it relates to the Northern Beaches of
>> Sydney:
>>
>>
>> -Australian Brushturkey
>> -Eastern Whipbird
>> -Variegated Fairy-wren
>> -Scarlet HE
>> -Robins (Rose)
>> If you're heading to Warriewood, you could see all these at Irrawong
>> Reserve, which adjoins the wetlands <1km.
>> The first three are definites, the last two are quite possible.
>>
>> -Little Penguin
>> By the harbour around Manly, Little Manly, Collins Beach area. I've never
>> actually gone looking for them as I usually
>> see them on the water either in Middle Harbour or Pittwater where they
>> are a regular occurrence.
>>
>> -Pacific Baza
>> -Pacific Koel
>> -Channel-billed Cuckoo
>> It's probably still a bit early for these. They come to the Northern
>> Beaches in Summer.
>>
>> -Glossy Black Cockatoo
>> In the area around Kimbriki Waste Recycling Centre and the Terrey Hills
>> area. Usually very conspicuous when in flight.
>>
>> -Australian King Parrot
>> Most places on the Northern Beaches, though not as common as the Rainbow
>> Lorikeet.
>>
>> -Australian Golden Whistler
>> Narrabeen Lake. It's worth a walk around the lake, 8.5km for a full
>> circuit, or just go out and back along the
>> Southern shore between Jamieson Park and Middle Creek Reserve. Lots of
>> birds to see along that stretch.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason.
>>
>>
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