Participating in Birdlife Twitch today. One P E Duck and 1 Australian Shoveler
on Lake Galletly.
Otherwise agree....enormous shift in abundance at the lakes. Where are the
Darters and Cormorants? No AustralianGrebe and no Coot, amazing and sad.
Lockyer Waters, Jahnkes Lagoon, Pecheys all bone dry. Galletly was very down in
numbers long before the west found its pastures greening.
Sheena Gillman
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> 4. Re: Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton? (Tom Tarrant)
> 5. Re: What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton? (Dave Torr)
> 6. Re: Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton? (Mike Carter)
> 7. Vale Wallie Coles (John Harris)
> 8. What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton? (Philip Veerman)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 05:37:04 +1100
> From: Chris Lester <>
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> Dear Pelagic Birders,
>
> The BirdLife Victoria web site (see link below) now has the details of boat
> trips from Portland in 2017 and Tim Bawden is now taking bookings for the
> first six months of next year.
> If you want a spot (or spots), please follow the instructions there to make
> a booking.
>
> Please note: You will see that Tim is taking over the bookings from me for
> next year so please address your requests to him. (His email address is on
> the web site).
>
> so, I am taking a break from organising these trips and intend to spend my
> extra spare time going birding. Thanks to all those who have been involved
> over the past years and to my fellow organisers - Rohan, Paul and Tim. I
> still intend to do pelagics out of Portland regularly and hope to see you
> on a trip in the future, when my busy birding trip schedule allows it.
> Regards
>
> Chris Lester
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> For details of future Portland trips, go to the BirdLife Australia web
> site at the bottom of the relevant Birdlife Victoria page at
> http://www.birdlife.org.au/locations/all-victoria-statewide/activities-vic
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:46:11 +1100
> From: "Carl Weber " <>
> To: "'Tom Wilson'" <>,
> <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
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> Lake Cargelligo STW is the same. On Saturday last, there were 6 black swans,
> a duck and a moorhen - not even a swamphen or black duck. The flooded
> paddocks around the perimeter were also devoid of birds.
>
> Carl Weber
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Tom Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016 8:42 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
> Hi all
> Sydney is the same ? and Penny is probably right. They?ve all gone out
> west...way west ? I was at Lake Wallace a bit west of Lithgow in late
> September ? there were a few ducks but only about a dozen Coots whereas I
> would expect 100s. Lithgow STW was similarly devoid of birds (about 20 ducks
> and a couple of grebes and certainly nothing ?interesting?).
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
>
> From: Penny Brockman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:45 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
> One thought - all the rain out west has attracted them to "better pastures"
>
>
>> On 26/10/16 6:08 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>> Ive been a regular visitor to Lake Galletly at the UQ Campus at Gatton,
>> Sth-east Queensland for many years and had some memorable birding
>> encounters there. At its peak there were hundreds of Pink-eared Ducks,
>> thousands of Plumed Whistling-ducks and similar numbers of Magpie Geese.
>> Mixed amongst that were the likes of Blue-billed Ducks, Grey, Pacific Black,
>> various Egrets, Herons, Cormorants, shorebirds, coots, swamphens etc as well
>> as occasional Native-hens, Bitterns, Crakes and other rarities that have
>> showed up there.
>>
>> Over recent visits every time I go there though there appear to be less and
>> less birds! Cattle Egrets have colonised the areas around both ponds and
>> appear to have breeding cycles a couple of times a year and then move on.
>>
>> I was amazed yesterday on my way home from Durikai to visit and see so few
>> birds - not a Pink-eared in sight or a Magpie Goose - greatly reduced
>> Whistling-ducks and a tiny smattering of other birds - I noticed some rather
>> horrid green algae covering some of the lake and wondered if the water is
>> affected at some levell? There are numbers of Cattle Egret who appear to be
>> in the early stages of a breeding bout but not much else. I do understand
>> that wetland areas can change with climate/environmental issues and this can
>> see variances in numbers but it does seem this terrific spot has lost its
>> appeal for many of the local birds lately ?.. any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> David Taylor
>>
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:27:44 +1100
> From: "Richard Nowotny" <>
> To: "'Birding-aus'" <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
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> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Dave Torr
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016 7:27 PM
> To: Penny Brockman
> Cc: birding-aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
>
>
> Yes indeed. The famous Western Treatment Plant at Werribee is almost deserted
> by waterfowl at the moment.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 26 Oct 2016 7:19 PM, "Penny Brockman" < <>
> > wrote:
>
>
>
>> One thought - all the rain out west has attracted them to "better pastures"
>
>
>
>
>
>>> On 26/10/16 6:08 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>>
>
>>> I?ve been a regular visitor to Lake Galletly at the UQ Campus at
>
>>> Gatton, Sth-east Queensland for many years and had some memorable
>
>>> birding encounters there. At its peak there were hundreds of
>
>>> Pink-eared Ducks, thousands of Plumed Whistling-ducks and similar numbers
>>> of Magpie Geese.
>
>>> Mixed amongst that were the likes of Blue-billed Ducks, Grey, Pacific
>
>>> Black, various Egrets, Herons, Cormorants, shorebirds, coots,
>
>>> swamphens etc as well as occasional Native-hens, Bitterns, Crakes and
>
>>> other rarities that have showed up there.
>
>
>>> Over recent visits every time I go there though there appear to be
>
>>> less and less birds! Cattle Egrets have colonised the areas around
>
>>> both ponds and appear to have breeding cycles a couple of times a
>
>>> year and then move on.
>
>
>>> I was amazed yesterday on my way home from Durikai to visit and see
>
>>> so few birds - not a Pink-eared in sight or a Magpie Goose - greatly
>
>>> reduced Whistling-ducks and a tiny smattering of other birds - I
>
>>> noticed some rather horrid green algae covering some of the lake and
>
>>> wondered if the water is affected at some level? There are numbers
>
>>> of Cattle Egret who appear to be in the early stages of a breeding
>
>>> bout but not much else. I do understand that wetland areas can change
>
>>> with climate/environmental issues and this can see variances in
>
>>> numbers but it does seem this terrific spot has lost its appeal for many of
>>> the local birds lately ?.. any thoughts?
>
>
>>> Cheers
>
>
>>> David Taylor
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:37:50 +1000
> From: Tom Tarrant <>
> To: "" <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
> Message-ID:
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> The biggest confirmation of this 'migration' south and west is the lack of
> 'Swamp-Chooks' (Purple Gallinules) in our area at the moment. Plenty of
> Dusky Moorhens but virtually none of their bigger 'cousins'....no
> Straw-necked Ibis, few White-faced Herons, large 'raptors' and waterfowl.
>
> Anyone else noticed this in their area?
>
> Tom
> ?
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:45:32 +1100
> From: Dave Torr <>
> To: Richard Nowotny <>
> Cc: Birding-aus <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
> Message-ID:
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf
>> Of Dave Torr
>> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016 7:27 PM
>> To: Penny Brockman
>> Cc: birding-aus
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes indeed. The famous Western Treatment Plant at Werribee is almost
>> deserted by waterfowl at the moment.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Oct 2016 7:19 PM, "Penny Brockman" < <>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> One thought - all the rain out west has attracted them to "better
>> pastures"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> On 26/10/16 6:08 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>> I?ve been a regular visitor to Lake Galletly at the UQ Campus at
>>
>>>> Gatton, Sth-east Queensland for many years and had some memorable
>>
>>>> birding encounters there. At its peak there were hundreds of
>>
>>>> Pink-eared Ducks, thousands of Plumed Whistling-ducks and similar
>> numbers of Magpie Geese.
>>
>>>> Mixed amongst that were the likes of Blue-billed Ducks, Grey, Pacific
>>
>>>> Black, various Egrets, Herons, Cormorants, shorebirds, coots,
>>
>>>> swamphens etc as well as occasional Native-hens, Bitterns, Crakes and
>>
>>>> other rarities that have showed up there.
>>
>>
>>>> Over recent visits every time I go there though there appear to be
>>
>>>> less and less birds! Cattle Egrets have colonised the areas around
>>
>>>> both ponds and appear to have breeding cycles a couple of times a
>>
>>>> year and then move on.
>>
>>
>>>> I was amazed yesterday on my way home from Durikai to visit and see
>>
>>>> so few birds - not a Pink-eared in sight or a Magpie Goose - greatly
>>
>>>> reduced Whistling-ducks and a tiny smattering of other birds - I
>>
>>>> noticed some rather horrid green algae covering some of the lake and
>>
>>>> wondered if the water is affected at some level? There are numbers
>>
>>>> of Cattle Egret who appear to be in the early stages of a breeding
>>
>>>> bout but not much else. I do understand that wetland areas can change
>>
>>>> with climate/environmental issues and this can see variances in
>>
>>>> numbers but it does seem this terrific spot has lost its appeal for
>> many of the local birds lately ?.. any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>>> David Taylor
>>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:37:50 +1100
> From: "Mike Carter" <>
> To: <>, "'Tom Wilson'"
> <>, <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Melbourne Water's Eastern Treatment Plant which currently has vast areas of
> water available has been without nomadic waterfowl, or only just a few, for
> nearly two months. The last to leave were Blue-billed Ducks. Even the Coots
> which usually number ~1,500 have mostly gone. Whereas our survey last
> October counted 2,900 Pink-eared Ducks, this year NIL. Some other comparison
> examples are Latham's Snipe 11 & 1, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 1,120 & NIL,
> Whiskered Tern 215 & NIL. Even Black-fronted Dotterels are scarce.
> We did however have a rather intriguing looking 'Barn Owl' which is unusual
> for us and because of some other reports I wonder whether we are about to
> experience an irruption.
>
> Mike Carter, 03 5977 1262
> 181/160 Mornington-Tyabb Road
> Mornington, VIC 3931, Australia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Carl Weber
> Sent: 27 October 2016 10:46 AM
> To: 'Tom Wilson';
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
> Lake Cargelligo STW is the same. On Saturday last, there were 6 black swans,
> a duck and a moorhen - not even a swamphen or black duck. The flooded
> paddocks around the perimeter were also devoid of birds.
>
> Carl Weber
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Tom Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016 8:42 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
> Hi all
> Sydney is the same ? and Penny is probably right. They?ve all gone out
> west...way west ? I was at Lake Wallace a bit west of Lithgow in late
> September ? there were a few ducks but only about a dozen Coots whereas I
> would expect 100s. Lithgow STW was similarly devoid of birds (about 20 ducks
> and a couple of grebes and certainly nothing ?interesting?).
> Cheers
> Tom Wilson
>
> From: Penny Brockman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:45 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Whats happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
>
> One thought - all the rain out west has attracted them to "better pastures"
>
>
>> On 26/10/16 6:08 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>> Ive been a regular visitor to Lake Galletly at the UQ Campus at Gatton,
>> Sth-east Queensland for many years and had some memorable birding
>> encounters there. At its peak there were hundreds of Pink-eared Ducks,
>> thousands of Plumed Whistling-ducks and similar numbers of Magpie Geese.
>> Mixed amongst that were the likes of Blue-billed Ducks, Grey, Pacific Black,
>> various Egrets, Herons, Cormorants, shorebirds, coots, swamphens etc as well
>> as occasional Native-hens, Bitterns, Crakes and other rarities that have
>> showed up there.
>>
>> Over recent visits every time I go there though there appear to be less and
>> less birds! Cattle Egrets have colonised the areas around both ponds and
>> appear to have breeding cycles a couple of times a year and then move on.
>>
>> I was amazed yesterday on my way home from Durikai to visit and see so few
>> birds - not a Pink-eared in sight or a Magpie Goose - greatly reduced
>> Whistling-ducks and a tiny smattering of other birds - I noticed some rather
>> horrid green algae covering some of the lake and wondered if the water is
>> affected at some levell? There are numbers of Cattle Egret who appear to be
>> in the early stages of a breeding bout but not much else. I do understand
>> that wetland areas can change with climate/environmental issues and this can
>> see variances in numbers but it does seem this terrific spot has lost its
>> appeal for many of the local birds lately ?.. any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> David Taylor
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:59:26 +1100
> From: John Harris <>
> To: "" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Vale Wallie Coles
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> Hi All,
> It is with a very sad heart that I inform you that another great birder, of
> our Australian bird watching community, Wallie Coles has passed away.
> Wallie was a stalwart of the Ballarat Branch of the BOCA for many decades
> but has suffered from ill health for a few years now. My condolences go out
> to Eileen, his family and his close birding friends.
>
> Let me take a few lines to reminisce about my old mate and birding mentor.
> I first met Wallie in 1976, when he popped into the old zoo in Ballarat,
> where I was living, to observe how our aviary birds reacted to the solar
> eclipse that was happening at the time. From then, he took me as an 11 year
> old kid to see a flock of Glossy Ibis at the Flaxmill Swamp (behind the
> Mars factory in Ballarat), gave me my first binoculars and started me in
> birding. Over the years, we went on a number of trips most often with his
> birding buddy and good friend Helen O'Donnell, to many parts of Victoria
> seeing many new birds. One of my most memorable locations was to the Clunes
> State Forest, and that "Magic Tree" to see the Painted Honeyeaters. I know
> there are hundreds of people from across Australia and the world who owe
> their first Painted Honeyeater to Wallie and Helen, along with numerous
> other birds. Wallie and Helen accompanied me on my trip around the birding
> "hotspots" of the Ballarat district while I was compiling the chapter for
> "Where to See Birds in Victoria". My last trip out with him, and Helen, was
> to Clarkesdale Sanctuary and Devil's Kitchen a couple of years ago. He was
> looking frail even then.
>
> I'm not sure of funeral details yet, but they will appear in the Ballarat
> Courier in due time I presume.
>
> Thanks for all of the birding memories!!
>
> Rest In Peace my good mate.
>
> John
>
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>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:10:00 +1100
> From: "Philip Veerman" <>
> To: "'Dave Torr'" <>, "'Richard Nowotny'"
> <>
> Cc: "'Birding-aus'" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
> Message-ID: <>
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> 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:35:43 +1000
> From: Marie Tarrant <>
> To: "" <>, Marie
> <>, Michael Tarburton <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] White-throated Needletails over Kobble Creek,
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> Six WTNTs were observed late this afternoon lazily drifting overhead the
> property in the space of 5 minutes from 5.10pm this afternoon (-27 14' S /
> 152 47' E). They came from a southerly direction and drifted off to the
> east - it was a slow, unhurried fly-over and the birds appeared as
> individuals and not in a group.
>
> --
> Marie Tarrant
> Kobble Creek, Qld
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:05:55 +1100
> From: "Roger Giller" <>
> To: "'Philip Veerman'" <>, "'Dave Torr'"
> <>, "'Richard Nowotny'"
> <>
> Cc: "'Birding-aus'" <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] What's happened at Lake Galletly, Gatton?
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> 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-----
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> Philip Veerman
> Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2016 5:10 PM
> To: 'Dave Torr'; 'Richard Nowotny'
> Cc: 'Birding-aus'
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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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