My daughter, a non-birder, phoned a couple of days ago to say she had just
arrived at Macquarie Marshes (Willie Retreat). They had come from Bourke
and had to get there via Warren as the bridge at Carinda is out. She said
there was almost continuous water in the roadside drains from Warren up to
Gibson Way with birds by the hundreds in every "long puddle". Hopefully she
took some photos for me.
Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Philip Veerman
Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2016 5:10 PM
To: 'Dave Torr'; 'Richard Nowotny'
Cc: 'Birding-aus'
Subject: What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
I was at Phillip Island last week and there were several Swamp Harriers
there. Lots of water all along the Hume highway (I did the return trip from
Canberra to Melbourne) and almost no ducks and few other water birds but
more than the usual number of raptors (Black & Whistling Kites, Brown
Goshawks, Kestrels & Brown Falcons). For what it may be worth, there was
massive breeding of Masked Lapwings and Cape Barren Geese on Phillip Island.
The latter is a first for me. The species did not occur there as far as I
recall in all my many visits in the 1970s.
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Dave Torr
Sent: Thursday, 27 October, 2016 11:46 AM
To: Richard Nowotny
Cc: Birding-aus
Subject: What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
No Swamp Harriers either as I guess nothing for them to eat apart from the
large number of Black Swans and cygnets.
On 27 October 2016 at 11:27, Richard Nowotny <>
wrote:
> What's particularly interesting at the Western Treatment Plant is that not
> only have tens of thousands of ducks left for greener inland pastures (not
> a single Grey Teal or Pink-eared Duck seen last Monday - often present in
> thousands - and almost everything else seen in ones and twos other than
> Black Duck and Chestnut Teal) but so have all the Hoary-headed Grebes
> (usually hundreds, even thousands), Great Crested Grebes, spoonbills,
> avocets, Banded Stilts, Cape Barren Geese, and most of the Black-winged
> Stilts (I saw only one), ibis (only one White Ibis, although tens of
> Straw-necked remain), herons (only one White-faced) and egrets. It's quite
> an exodus. The place looks eerily deserted, with pond after pond entirely
> bird-free.
>
> Richard
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