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Rain at Gluepot..

To: "Charles Hunter via Birding-Aus" <>
Subject: Rain at Gluepot..
From: "Penny Brockman" <>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:25:35 +1000
There’s no way of improving the tracks at Gluepot and one would’nt want to seal 
them. They are lovely red sand tracks until it rains. Then they become a sticky 
red glue  which collects around your tyres until they can’t turn. You are truly 
bogged. Don’t even try. 

--------------------
 Penny Brockman

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, at 3:53 AM, Michael Hunter wrote:
> 
> Unless the roads have been upgraded since we were last there, rain of 
> any significance at Gluepot results in a “Glue Pot”,  and stranding 
> until the roads dry out.
> 
> Not a bad place to be locked down though, depending on who else is there.
> 
>             Michael
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> >   1. Re: Running out of species (Russell Woodford)
> >   2. Re: Running out of species (Tony Russell)
> >   3. Re: Running out of species (Mark Stanley)
> >   4. Re: Running out of species (Mark Stanley)
> >   5. Re: Running out of species (Mark Stanley)
> >   6. Running out of species (Peter Diegutis)
> >   7. Rain at Gluepot and the Butcherbird (Chris Shaw)
> >   8. Re: Running out of species (Michael Johnson)
> >   9. Re: Running out of species (Peter Shute)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:04:12 +1000
> > From: Russell Woodford <>
> > To: Mark Stanley <>
> > Cc: 
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID: <>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> > 
> > Hi Mark
> > 
> > Some great birds there! You?ve certainly seen some iconic species this 
> > year. 
> > 
> > Are you doing this (like I am) as part of the international Bird-a-Day on 
> > Facebook? There?s a few Melbourne participants who may be able to help you. 
> > The key, as I?m sure you?ve realised, is to keep as many ?easy? birds as 
> > possible to use on days when the weather or life itself - or another 
> > lockdown - gets in the way of birding. 
> > 
> > The other great resource is eBird. You don?t have to be a member / 
> > contributor to peruse the hotspots for any given species. Of course you?re 
> > probably doing this already, but the eBird app (for members) will show you 
> > what?s been seen in a given radius (1, 2, 5, 10 or 30km from your current 
> > location or any given location) over a defined time period. This has been 
> > invaluable to all of us doing Bird-a-Day eg today I know if I want to see 
> > Russet-tailed Thrush or Striated Thornbill they were both seen yesterday at 
> > a reserve about 45 minutes away. That?s today?s plan!
> > 
> > I notice you don?t have any owls listed. Are you ok with just hearing the 
> > call? There are spots close to you for Boobook and I remember there used to 
> > be Powerful Owls in certain Melbourne parks.    Scarlet Robin was seen at 
> > Royal Park yesterday so there?s a chance of finding a closer one. 
> > 
> > Good luck - and hope you can hang on until Tuesday! Some good flyovers 
> > should help!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Russell Woodford
> > 
> > 
> >> On 21 Jul 2021, at 11:56 pm, Mark Stanley <> wrote:
> >> 
> >> ?
> >> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the 
> >> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in 
> >> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood. 
> >> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would 
> >> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions 
> >> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - 
> >> is just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit 
> >> far) and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.  
> >> 
> >> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome any 
> >> suggestions:
> >> 
> >> IOC Name
> >> Emu
> >> Cape Barren Goose
> >> Black Swan
> >> Freckled Duck
> >> Maned Duck
> >> Australasian Shoveler
> >> Pacific Black Duck
> >> Grey Teal
> >> Chestnut Teal
> >> Hardhead
> >> Blue-billed Duck
> >> Musk Duck
> >> Brown Quail
> >> Tawny Frogmouth
> >> White-throated Needletail
> >> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >> Rock Dove
> >> Spotted Dove
> >> Laughing Dove
> >> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >> Common Bronzewing
> >> Brush Bronzewing
> >> Crested Pigeon
> >> Squatter Pigeon
> >> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >> Superb Fruit Dove
> >> Lewin's Rail
> >> Buff-banded Rail
> >> Australian Crake
> >> Eurasian Coot
> >> Australasian Swamphen
> >> Spotless Crake
> >> Brolga
> >> Australasian Grebe
> >> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >> Great Crested Grebe
> >> Pied Oystercatcher
> >> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >> Pied Stilt
> >> Banded Stilt
> >> Red-necked Avocet
> >> Masked Lapwing
> >> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >> Pacific Golden Plover
> >> Double-banded Plover
> >> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >> Black-tailed Godwit
> >> Hudsonian Godwit
> >> Red Knot
> >> Curlew Sandpiper
> >> Long-toed Stint
> >> Red-necked Stint
> >> Sanderling
> >> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >> Latham's Snipe
> >> Common Sandpiper
> >> Marsh Sandpiper
> >> Common Greenshank
> >> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >> Silver Gull
> >> Pacific Gull
> >> Gull-billed Tern
> >> Caspian Tern
> >> Greater Crested Tern
> >> Fairy Tern
> >> White-fronted Tern
> >> Parasitic Jaeger
> >> Light-mantled Albatross
> >> Shy Albatross
> >> Northern Giant Petrel
> >> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >> Australasian Gannet
> >> Australasian Darter
> >> Little Pied Cormorant
> >> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >> Little Black Cormorant
> >> Great Cormorant
> >> Australian White Ibis
> >> Straw-necked Ibis
> >> Glossy Ibis
> >> Royal Spoonbill
> >> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >> Australasian Bittern
> >> Black Bittern
> >> Nankeen Night Heron
> >> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >> White-necked Heron
> >> Great-billed Heron
> >> Great Egret
> >> Intermediate Egret
> >> White-faced Heron
> >> Little Egret
> >> Australian Pelican
> >> Western Osprey
> >> Black-shouldered Kite
> >> Pacific Baza
> >> Little Eagle
> >> Grey Goshawk
> >> Brown Goshawk
> >> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >> Whistling Kite
> >> Nankeen Kestrel
> >> Australian Hobby
> >> Peregrine Falcon
> >> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >> Galah
> >> Long-billed Corella
> >> Little Corella
> >> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >> Regent Parrot
> >> Australian King Parrot
> >> Red-rumped Parrot
> >> Mulga Parrot
> >> Crimson Rosella
> >> Eastern Rosella
> >> Swift Parrot
> >> Blue-winged Parrot
> >> Rock Parrot
> >> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >> Musk Lorikeet
> >> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >> Superb Lyrebird
> >> Noisy Scrubbird
> >> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >> White-throated Treecreeper
> >> Superb Fairywren
> >> Southern Emu-wren
> >> Mallee Emu-wren
> >> Eastern Spinebill
> >> White-fronted Chat
> >> New Holland Honeyeater
> >> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> White-eared Honeyeater
> >> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >> White-naped Honeyeater
> >> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >> Singing Honeyeater
> >> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >> Western Wattlebird
> >> Red Wattlebird
> >> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> Bell Miner
> >> Noisy Miner
> >> Rufous Bristlebird
> >> Spotted Pardalote
> >> Striated Pardalote
> >> Weebill
> >> Striated Fieldwren
> >> Redthroat
> >> Speckled Warbler
> >> White-browed Scrubwren
> >> Brown Thornbill
> >> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow Thornbill
> >> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >> Australian Magpie
> >> Grey Butcherbird
> >> Pied Currawong
> >> Grey Currawong
> >> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >> Varied Sittella
> >> Crested Shriketit
> >> Australian Golden Whistler
> >> Olive-backed Oriole
> >> Willie Wagtail
> >> Grey Fantail
> >> Pied Monarch
> >> Magpie-lark
> >> Satin Flycatcher
> >> Forest Raven
> >> Little Raven
> >> White-winged Chough
> >> Rose Robin
> >> Pink Robin
> >> Flame Robin
> >> Eurasian Skylark
> >> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >> Welcome Swallow
> >> Fairy Martin
> >> Tree Martin
> >> Australian Reed Warbler
> >> Little Grassbird
> >> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >> Common Myna
> >> Common Starling
> >> Bassian Thrush
> >> Common Blackbird
> >> Mistletoebird
> >> House Sparrow
> >> Diamond Firetail
> >> Red-eared Firetail
> >> Red-browed Finch
> >> Zebra Finch
> >> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >> European Greenfinch
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> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:19:06 +0930
> > From: Tony Russell <>
> > To: Russell Woodford <>
> > Cc: Mark Stanley <>, Birding-Aus
> >    <>
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
> >    <CAO5DGRv0MmzvHMXYwYF=>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > People shouldn't be moving around just to see birds!!!. Totally
> > irresponsible.
> > 
> >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, 07:35 Russell Woodford, <> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi Mark
> >> 
> >> Some great birds there! You?ve certainly seen some iconic species this
> >> year.
> >> 
> >> Are you doing this (like I am) as part of the international Bird-a-Day on
> >> Facebook? There?s a few Melbourne participants who may be able to help you.
> >> The key, as I?m sure you?ve realised, is to keep as many ?easy? birds as
> >> possible to use on days when the weather or life itself - or another
> >> lockdown - gets in the way of birding.
> >> 
> >> The other great resource is eBird. You don?t have to be a member /
> >> contributor to peruse the hotspots for any given species. Of course you?re
> >> probably doing this already, but the eBird app (for members) will show you
> >> what?s been seen in a given radius (1, 2, 5, 10 or 30km from your current
> >> location or any given location) over a defined time period. This has been
> >> invaluable to all of us doing Bird-a-Day eg today I know if I want to see
> >> Russet-tailed Thrush or Striated Thornbill they were both seen yesterday at
> >> a reserve about 45 minutes away. That?s today?s plan!
> >> 
> >> I notice you don?t have any owls listed. Are you ok with just hearing the
> >> call? There are spots close to you for Boobook and I remember there used to
> >> be Powerful Owls in certain Melbourne parks.    Scarlet Robin was seen at
> >> Royal Park yesterday so there?s a chance of finding a closer one.
> >> 
> >> Good luck - and hope you can hang on until Tuesday! Some good flyovers
> >> should help!
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Russell Woodford
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On 21 Jul 2021, at 11:56 pm, Mark Stanley <>
> >> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> ?
> >>> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the
> >> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in
> >> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood.
> >> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would
> >> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions
> >> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - is
> >> just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit far)
> >> and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.
> >>> 
> >>> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome
> >> any suggestions:
> >>> 
> >>> IOC Name
> >>> Emu
> >>> Cape Barren Goose
> >>> Black Swan
> >>> Freckled Duck
> >>> Maned Duck
> >>> Australasian Shoveler
> >>> Pacific Black Duck
> >>> Grey Teal
> >>> Chestnut Teal
> >>> Hardhead
> >>> Blue-billed Duck
> >>> Musk Duck
> >>> Brown Quail
> >>> Tawny Frogmouth
> >>> White-throated Needletail
> >>> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >>> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >>> Rock Dove
> >>> Spotted Dove
> >>> Laughing Dove
> >>> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >>> Common Bronzewing
> >>> Brush Bronzewing
> >>> Crested Pigeon
> >>> Squatter Pigeon
> >>> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >>> Superb Fruit Dove
> >>> Lewin's Rail
> >>> Buff-banded Rail
> >>> Australian Crake
> >>> Eurasian Coot
> >>> Australasian Swamphen
> >>> Spotless Crake
> >>> Brolga
> >>> Australasian Grebe
> >>> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >>> Great Crested Grebe
> >>> Pied Oystercatcher
> >>> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >>> Pied Stilt
> >>> Banded Stilt
> >>> Red-necked Avocet
> >>> Masked Lapwing
> >>> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >>> Pacific Golden Plover
> >>> Double-banded Plover
> >>> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >>> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >>> Black-tailed Godwit
> >>> Hudsonian Godwit
> >>> Red Knot
> >>> Curlew Sandpiper
> >>> Long-toed Stint
> >>> Red-necked Stint
> >>> Sanderling
> >>> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >>> Latham's Snipe
> >>> Common Sandpiper
> >>> Marsh Sandpiper
> >>> Common Greenshank
> >>> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >>> Silver Gull
> >>> Pacific Gull
> >>> Gull-billed Tern
> >>> Caspian Tern
> >>> Greater Crested Tern
> >>> Fairy Tern
> >>> White-fronted Tern
> >>> Parasitic Jaeger
> >>> Light-mantled Albatross
> >>> Shy Albatross
> >>> Northern Giant Petrel
> >>> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >>> Australasian Gannet
> >>> Australasian Darter
> >>> Little Pied Cormorant
> >>> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >>> Little Black Cormorant
> >>> Great Cormorant
> >>> Australian White Ibis
> >>> Straw-necked Ibis
> >>> Glossy Ibis
> >>> Royal Spoonbill
> >>> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >>> Australasian Bittern
> >>> Black Bittern
> >>> Nankeen Night Heron
> >>> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >>> White-necked Heron
> >>> Great-billed Heron
> >>> Great Egret
> >>> Intermediate Egret
> >>> White-faced Heron
> >>> Little Egret
> >>> Australian Pelican
> >>> Western Osprey
> >>> Black-shouldered Kite
> >>> Pacific Baza
> >>> Little Eagle
> >>> Grey Goshawk
> >>> Brown Goshawk
> >>> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >>> Whistling Kite
> >>> Nankeen Kestrel
> >>> Australian Hobby
> >>> Peregrine Falcon
> >>> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >>> Galah
> >>> Long-billed Corella
> >>> Little Corella
> >>> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >>> Regent Parrot
> >>> Australian King Parrot
> >>> Red-rumped Parrot
> >>> Mulga Parrot
> >>> Crimson Rosella
> >>> Eastern Rosella
> >>> Swift Parrot
> >>> Blue-winged Parrot
> >>> Rock Parrot
> >>> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >>> Musk Lorikeet
> >>> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >>> Superb Lyrebird
> >>> Noisy Scrubbird
> >>> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >>> White-throated Treecreeper
> >>> Superb Fairywren
> >>> Southern Emu-wren
> >>> Mallee Emu-wren
> >>> Eastern Spinebill
> >>> White-fronted Chat
> >>> New Holland Honeyeater
> >>> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> White-eared Honeyeater
> >>> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >>> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >>> White-naped Honeyeater
> >>> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >>> Singing Honeyeater
> >>> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >>> Western Wattlebird
> >>> Red Wattlebird
> >>> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> Bell Miner
> >>> Noisy Miner
> >>> Rufous Bristlebird
> >>> Spotted Pardalote
> >>> Striated Pardalote
> >>> Weebill
> >>> Striated Fieldwren
> >>> Redthroat
> >>> Speckled Warbler
> >>> White-browed Scrubwren
> >>> Brown Thornbill
> >>> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow Thornbill
> >>> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >>> Australian Magpie
> >>> Grey Butcherbird
> >>> Pied Currawong
> >>> Grey Currawong
> >>> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >>> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >>> Varied Sittella
> >>> Crested Shriketit
> >>> Australian Golden Whistler
> >>> Olive-backed Oriole
> >>> Willie Wagtail
> >>> Grey Fantail
> >>> Pied Monarch
> >>> Magpie-lark
> >>> Satin Flycatcher
> >>> Forest Raven
> >>> Little Raven
> >>> White-winged Chough
> >>> Rose Robin
> >>> Pink Robin
> >>> Flame Robin
> >>> Eurasian Skylark
> >>> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >>> Welcome Swallow
> >>> Fairy Martin
> >>> Tree Martin
> >>> Australian Reed Warbler
> >>> Little Grassbird
> >>> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >>> Common Myna
> >>> Common Starling
> >>> Bassian Thrush
> >>> Common Blackbird
> >>> Mistletoebird
> >>> House Sparrow
> >>> Diamond Firetail
> >>> Red-eared Firetail
> >>> Red-browed Finch
> >>> Zebra Finch
> >>> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >>> European Greenfinch
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:56:35 +1000
> > From: Mark Stanley <>
> > To: suetaylor1 <>, 
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > Thanks Sue!
> > 
> > This is actually a mistake - I work off a bird list based on the original
> > HBW order and translated it to IOC which folk are more familiar with. It is
> > actually Little Wattlebird rather than Western which is on my list. Thanks
> > for pointing it out - something to keep me occupied during lockdown,
> > sorting such anomalies out!
> > 
> > Regards
> > Mark
> > 
> >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 09:21, suetaylor1 <> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Can't see Little Wattlebird on your list.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> >> 
> >> -------- Original message --------
> >> From: Mark Stanley <>
> >> Date: 21/7/21 11:51 pm (GMT+10:00)
> >> To: 
> >> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> >> 
> >> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the
> >> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in
> >> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood.
> >> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would
> >> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions
> >> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - is
> >> just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit far)
> >> and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.
> >> 
> >> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome any
> >> suggestions:
> >> 
> >> IOC Name
> >> Emu
> >> Cape Barren Goose
> >> Black Swan
> >> Freckled Duck
> >> Maned Duck
> >> Australasian Shoveler
> >> Pacific Black Duck
> >> Grey Teal
> >> Chestnut Teal
> >> Hardhead
> >> Blue-billed Duck
> >> Musk Duck
> >> Brown Quail
> >> Tawny Frogmouth
> >> White-throated Needletail
> >> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >> Rock Dove
> >> Spotted Dove
> >> Laughing Dove
> >> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >> Common Bronzewing
> >> Brush Bronzewing
> >> Crested Pigeon
> >> Squatter Pigeon
> >> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >> Superb Fruit Dove
> >> Lewin's Rail
> >> Buff-banded Rail
> >> Australian Crake
> >> Eurasian Coot
> >> Australasian Swamphen
> >> Spotless Crake
> >> Brolga
> >> Australasian Grebe
> >> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >> Great Crested Grebe
> >> Pied Oystercatcher
> >> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >> Pied Stilt
> >> Banded Stilt
> >> Red-necked Avocet
> >> Masked Lapwing
> >> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >> Pacific Golden Plover
> >> Double-banded Plover
> >> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >> Black-tailed Godwit
> >> Hudsonian Godwit
> >> Red Knot
> >> Curlew Sandpiper
> >> Long-toed Stint
> >> Red-necked Stint
> >> Sanderling
> >> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >> Latham's Snipe
> >> Common Sandpiper
> >> Marsh Sandpiper
> >> Common Greenshank
> >> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >> Silver Gull
> >> Pacific Gull
> >> Gull-billed Tern
> >> Caspian Tern
> >> Greater Crested Tern
> >> Fairy Tern
> >> White-fronted Tern
> >> Parasitic Jaeger
> >> Light-mantled Albatross
> >> Shy Albatross
> >> Northern Giant Petrel
> >> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >> Australasian Gannet
> >> Australasian Darter
> >> Little Pied Cormorant
> >> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >> Little Black Cormorant
> >> Great Cormorant
> >> Australian White Ibis
> >> Straw-necked Ibis
> >> Glossy Ibis
> >> Royal Spoonbill
> >> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >> Australasian Bittern
> >> Black Bittern
> >> Nankeen Night Heron
> >> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >> White-necked Heron
> >> Great-billed Heron
> >> Great Egret
> >> Intermediate Egret
> >> White-faced Heron
> >> Little Egret
> >> Australian Pelican
> >> Western Osprey
> >> Black-shouldered Kite
> >> Pacific Baza
> >> Little Eagle
> >> Grey Goshawk
> >> Brown Goshawk
> >> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >> Whistling Kite
> >> Nankeen Kestrel
> >> Australian Hobby
> >> Peregrine Falcon
> >> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >> Galah
> >> Long-billed Corella
> >> Little Corella
> >> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >> Regent Parrot
> >> Australian King Parrot
> >> Red-rumped Parrot
> >> Mulga Parrot
> >> Crimson Rosella
> >> Eastern Rosella
> >> Swift Parrot
> >> Blue-winged Parrot
> >> Rock Parrot
> >> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >> Musk Lorikeet
> >> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >> Superb Lyrebird
> >> Noisy Scrubbird
> >> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >> White-throated Treecreeper
> >> Superb Fairywren
> >> Southern Emu-wren
> >> Mallee Emu-wren
> >> Eastern Spinebill
> >> White-fronted Chat
> >> New Holland Honeyeater
> >> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> White-eared Honeyeater
> >> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >> White-naped Honeyeater
> >> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >> Singing Honeyeater
> >> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >> Western Wattlebird
> >> Red Wattlebird
> >> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> Bell Miner
> >> Noisy Miner
> >> Rufous Bristlebird
> >> Spotted Pardalote
> >> Striated Pardalote
> >> Weebill
> >> Striated Fieldwren
> >> Redthroat
> >> Speckled Warbler
> >> White-browed Scrubwren
> >> Brown Thornbill
> >> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow Thornbill
> >> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >> Australian Magpie
> >> Grey Butcherbird
> >> Pied Currawong
> >> Grey Currawong
> >> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >> Varied Sittella
> >> Crested Shriketit
> >> Australian Golden Whistler
> >> Olive-backed Oriole
> >> Willie Wagtail
> >> Grey Fantail
> >> Pied Monarch
> >> Magpie-lark
> >> Satin Flycatcher
> >> Forest Raven
> >> Little Raven
> >> White-winged Chough
> >> Rose Robin
> >> Pink Robin
> >> Flame Robin
> >> Eurasian Skylark
> >> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >> Welcome Swallow
> >> Fairy Martin
> >> Tree Martin
> >> Australian Reed Warbler
> >> Little Grassbird
> >> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >> Common Myna
> >> Common Starling
> >> Bassian Thrush
> >> Common Blackbird
> >> Mistletoebird
> >> House Sparrow
> >> Diamond Firetail
> >> Red-eared Firetail
> >> Red-browed Finch
> >> Zebra Finch
> >> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >> European Greenfinch
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> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:23:19 +1000
> > From: Mark Stanley <>
> > To: Russell Woodford <>,
> >    
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
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> > 
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > Thanks for your useful suggestions.
> > 
> > Actually, no I am not involved in Bird-a-Day on Facebook, but did get the
> > idea from this. And yes, I am a member of eBird, and have been perusing it
> > daily - noticed some Black-faced Cormorants at Kerferd Rd pier recently but
> > suspect that they might have been mis-identified Pied. Thanks for the note
> > on the Scarlet Robin at Royal park and there have also been Little
> > Lorikeets recorded there recently. Unfortunately it is just outside my 5 Km
> > limit.
> > 
> > I've heard about a Boobook in the Botanic Gardens, but I have not been
> > using heard only records. I may relax my rules if I get desperate and lurk
> > around outside this evening! I was hoping someone might mention a Powerful
> > Owl roosting near them!
> > 
> > Best wishes with your list - would be interested to hear how you go.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 08:04, Russell Woodford <> 
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi Mark
> >> 
> >> Some great birds there! You?ve certainly seen some iconic species this
> >> year.
> >> 
> >> Are you doing this (like I am) as part of the international Bird-a-Day on
> >> Facebook? There?s a few Melbourne participants who may be able to help you.
> >> The key, as I?m sure you?ve realised, is to keep as many ?easy? birds as
> >> possible to use on days when the weather or life itself - or another
> >> lockdown - gets in the way of birding.
> >> 
> >> The other great resource is eBird. You don?t have to be a member /
> >> contributor to peruse the hotspots for any given species. Of course you?re
> >> probably doing this already, but the eBird app (for members) will show you
> >> what?s been seen in a given radius (1, 2, 5, 10 or 30km from your current
> >> location or any given location) over a defined time period. This has been
> >> invaluable to all of us doing Bird-a-Day eg today I know if I want to see
> >> Russet-tailed Thrush or Striated Thornbill they were both seen yesterday at
> >> a reserve about 45 minutes away. That?s today?s plan!
> >> 
> >> I notice you don?t have any owls listed. Are you ok with just hearing the
> >> call? There are spots close to you for Boobook and I remember there used to
> >> be Powerful Owls in certain Melbourne parks.    Scarlet Robin was seen at
> >> Royal Park yesterday so there?s a chance of finding a closer one.
> >> 
> >> Good luck - and hope you can hang on until Tuesday! Some good flyovers
> >> should help!
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Russell Woodford
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On 21 Jul 2021, at 11:56 pm, Mark Stanley <>
> >> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> ?
> >>> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the
> >> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in
> >> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood.
> >> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would
> >> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions
> >> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - is
> >> just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit far)
> >> and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.
> >>> 
> >>> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome
> >> any suggestions:
> >>> 
> >>> IOC Name
> >>> Emu
> >>> Cape Barren Goose
> >>> Black Swan
> >>> Freckled Duck
> >>> Maned Duck
> >>> Australasian Shoveler
> >>> Pacific Black Duck
> >>> Grey Teal
> >>> Chestnut Teal
> >>> Hardhead
> >>> Blue-billed Duck
> >>> Musk Duck
> >>> Brown Quail
> >>> Tawny Frogmouth
> >>> White-throated Needletail
> >>> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >>> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >>> Rock Dove
> >>> Spotted Dove
> >>> Laughing Dove
> >>> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >>> Common Bronzewing
> >>> Brush Bronzewing
> >>> Crested Pigeon
> >>> Squatter Pigeon
> >>> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >>> Superb Fruit Dove
> >>> Lewin's Rail
> >>> Buff-banded Rail
> >>> Australian Crake
> >>> Eurasian Coot
> >>> Australasian Swamphen
> >>> Spotless Crake
> >>> Brolga
> >>> Australasian Grebe
> >>> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >>> Great Crested Grebe
> >>> Pied Oystercatcher
> >>> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >>> Pied Stilt
> >>> Banded Stilt
> >>> Red-necked Avocet
> >>> Masked Lapwing
> >>> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >>> Pacific Golden Plover
> >>> Double-banded Plover
> >>> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >>> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >>> Black-tailed Godwit
> >>> Hudsonian Godwit
> >>> Red Knot
> >>> Curlew Sandpiper
> >>> Long-toed Stint
> >>> Red-necked Stint
> >>> Sanderling
> >>> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >>> Latham's Snipe
> >>> Common Sandpiper
> >>> Marsh Sandpiper
> >>> Common Greenshank
> >>> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >>> Silver Gull
> >>> Pacific Gull
> >>> Gull-billed Tern
> >>> Caspian Tern
> >>> Greater Crested Tern
> >>> Fairy Tern
> >>> White-fronted Tern
> >>> Parasitic Jaeger
> >>> Light-mantled Albatross
> >>> Shy Albatross
> >>> Northern Giant Petrel
> >>> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >>> Australasian Gannet
> >>> Australasian Darter
> >>> Little Pied Cormorant
> >>> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >>> Little Black Cormorant
> >>> Great Cormorant
> >>> Australian White Ibis
> >>> Straw-necked Ibis
> >>> Glossy Ibis
> >>> Royal Spoonbill
> >>> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >>> Australasian Bittern
> >>> Black Bittern
> >>> Nankeen Night Heron
> >>> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >>> White-necked Heron
> >>> Great-billed Heron
> >>> Great Egret
> >>> Intermediate Egret
> >>> White-faced Heron
> >>> Little Egret
> >>> Australian Pelican
> >>> Western Osprey
> >>> Black-shouldered Kite
> >>> Pacific Baza
> >>> Little Eagle
> >>> Grey Goshawk
> >>> Brown Goshawk
> >>> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >>> Whistling Kite
> >>> Nankeen Kestrel
> >>> Australian Hobby
> >>> Peregrine Falcon
> >>> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >>> Galah
> >>> Long-billed Corella
> >>> Little Corella
> >>> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >>> Regent Parrot
> >>> Australian King Parrot
> >>> Red-rumped Parrot
> >>> Mulga Parrot
> >>> Crimson Rosella
> >>> Eastern Rosella
> >>> Swift Parrot
> >>> Blue-winged Parrot
> >>> Rock Parrot
> >>> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >>> Musk Lorikeet
> >>> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >>> Superb Lyrebird
> >>> Noisy Scrubbird
> >>> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >>> White-throated Treecreeper
> >>> Superb Fairywren
> >>> Southern Emu-wren
> >>> Mallee Emu-wren
> >>> Eastern Spinebill
> >>> White-fronted Chat
> >>> New Holland Honeyeater
> >>> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> White-eared Honeyeater
> >>> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >>> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >>> White-naped Honeyeater
> >>> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >>> Singing Honeyeater
> >>> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >>> Western Wattlebird
> >>> Red Wattlebird
> >>> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> Bell Miner
> >>> Noisy Miner
> >>> Rufous Bristlebird
> >>> Spotted Pardalote
> >>> Striated Pardalote
> >>> Weebill
> >>> Striated Fieldwren
> >>> Redthroat
> >>> Speckled Warbler
> >>> White-browed Scrubwren
> >>> Brown Thornbill
> >>> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow Thornbill
> >>> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >>> Australian Magpie
> >>> Grey Butcherbird
> >>> Pied Currawong
> >>> Grey Currawong
> >>> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >>> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >>> Varied Sittella
> >>> Crested Shriketit
> >>> Australian Golden Whistler
> >>> Olive-backed Oriole
> >>> Willie Wagtail
> >>> Grey Fantail
> >>> Pied Monarch
> >>> Magpie-lark
> >>> Satin Flycatcher
> >>> Forest Raven
> >>> Little Raven
> >>> White-winged Chough
> >>> Rose Robin
> >>> Pink Robin
> >>> Flame Robin
> >>> Eurasian Skylark
> >>> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >>> Welcome Swallow
> >>> Fairy Martin
> >>> Tree Martin
> >>> Australian Reed Warbler
> >>> Little Grassbird
> >>> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >>> Common Myna
> >>> Common Starling
> >>> Bassian Thrush
> >>> Common Blackbird
> >>> Mistletoebird
> >>> House Sparrow
> >>> Diamond Firetail
> >>> Red-eared Firetail
> >>> Red-browed Finch
> >>> Zebra Finch
> >>> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >>> European Greenfinch
> >>> <HR>
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> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:26:34 +1000
> > From: Mark Stanley <>
> > To: John Harris <>,
> >    
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
> >    <>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > Yes I have tried for Song Thrush at the Botanic Gardens. I have not heard
> > of a recent record and talking to an employee who was making a list, there
> > have been no records for a few years. I'm not officially doing a Bird-a-Day
> > challenge.
> > Thanks for your suggestions.
> > Regards
> > Mark
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 06:36, John Harris <>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi Mark,
> >> 
> >> Songs like your doing the 'Bird-a-day' challenge.
> >> 
> >> Have you considered Song Thrush at the RBG?
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> 
> >> John
> >> 
> >>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 23:56 Mark Stanley <> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the
> >>> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in
> >>> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood.
> >>> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would
> >>> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions
> >>> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - 
> >>> is
> >>> just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit far)
> >>> and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.
> >>> 
> >>> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome any
> >>> suggestions:
> >>> 
> >>> IOC Name
> >>> Emu
> >>> Cape Barren Goose
> >>> Black Swan
> >>> Freckled Duck
> >>> Maned Duck
> >>> Australasian Shoveler
> >>> Pacific Black Duck
> >>> Grey Teal
> >>> Chestnut Teal
> >>> Hardhead
> >>> Blue-billed Duck
> >>> Musk Duck
> >>> Brown Quail
> >>> Tawny Frogmouth
> >>> White-throated Needletail
> >>> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >>> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >>> Rock Dove
> >>> Spotted Dove
> >>> Laughing Dove
> >>> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >>> Common Bronzewing
> >>> Brush Bronzewing
> >>> Crested Pigeon
> >>> Squatter Pigeon
> >>> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >>> Superb Fruit Dove
> >>> Lewin's Rail
> >>> Buff-banded Rail
> >>> Australian Crake
> >>> Eurasian Coot
> >>> Australasian Swamphen
> >>> Spotless Crake
> >>> Brolga
> >>> Australasian Grebe
> >>> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >>> Great Crested Grebe
> >>> Pied Oystercatcher
> >>> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >>> Pied Stilt
> >>> Banded Stilt
> >>> Red-necked Avocet
> >>> Masked Lapwing
> >>> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >>> Pacific Golden Plover
> >>> Double-banded Plover
> >>> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >>> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >>> Black-tailed Godwit
> >>> Hudsonian Godwit
> >>> Red Knot
> >>> Curlew Sandpiper
> >>> Long-toed Stint
> >>> Red-necked Stint
> >>> Sanderling
> >>> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >>> Latham's Snipe
> >>> Common Sandpiper
> >>> Marsh Sandpiper
> >>> Common Greenshank
> >>> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >>> Silver Gull
> >>> Pacific Gull
> >>> Gull-billed Tern
> >>> Caspian Tern
> >>> Greater Crested Tern
> >>> Fairy Tern
> >>> White-fronted Tern
> >>> Parasitic Jaeger
> >>> Light-mantled Albatross
> >>> Shy Albatross
> >>> Northern Giant Petrel
> >>> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >>> Australasian Gannet
> >>> Australasian Darter
> >>> Little Pied Cormorant
> >>> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >>> Little Black Cormorant
> >>> Great Cormorant
> >>> Australian White Ibis
> >>> Straw-necked Ibis
> >>> Glossy Ibis
> >>> Royal Spoonbill
> >>> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >>> Australasian Bittern
> >>> Black Bittern
> >>> Nankeen Night Heron
> >>> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >>> White-necked Heron
> >>> Great-billed Heron
> >>> Great Egret
> >>> Intermediate Egret
> >>> White-faced Heron
> >>> Little Egret
> >>> Australian Pelican
> >>> Western Osprey
> >>> Black-shouldered Kite
> >>> Pacific Baza
> >>> Little Eagle
> >>> Grey Goshawk
> >>> Brown Goshawk
> >>> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >>> Whistling Kite
> >>> Nankeen Kestrel
> >>> Australian Hobby
> >>> Peregrine Falcon
> >>> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >>> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >>> Galah
> >>> Long-billed Corella
> >>> Little Corella
> >>> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >>> Regent Parrot
> >>> Australian King Parrot
> >>> Red-rumped Parrot
> >>> Mulga Parrot
> >>> Crimson Rosella
> >>> Eastern Rosella
> >>> Swift Parrot
> >>> Blue-winged Parrot
> >>> Rock Parrot
> >>> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >>> Musk Lorikeet
> >>> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >>> Superb Lyrebird
> >>> Noisy Scrubbird
> >>> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >>> White-throated Treecreeper
> >>> Superb Fairywren
> >>> Southern Emu-wren
> >>> Mallee Emu-wren
> >>> Eastern Spinebill
> >>> White-fronted Chat
> >>> New Holland Honeyeater
> >>> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> White-eared Honeyeater
> >>> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >>> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >>> White-naped Honeyeater
> >>> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >>> Singing Honeyeater
> >>> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >>> Western Wattlebird
> >>> Red Wattlebird
> >>> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >>> Bell Miner
> >>> Noisy Miner
> >>> Rufous Bristlebird
> >>> Spotted Pardalote
> >>> Striated Pardalote
> >>> Weebill
> >>> Striated Fieldwren
> >>> Redthroat
> >>> Speckled Warbler
> >>> White-browed Scrubwren
> >>> Brown Thornbill
> >>> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >>> Yellow Thornbill
> >>> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >>> Australian Magpie
> >>> Grey Butcherbird
> >>> Pied Currawong
> >>> Grey Currawong
> >>> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >>> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >>> Varied Sittella
> >>> Crested Shriketit
> >>> Australian Golden Whistler
> >>> Olive-backed Oriole
> >>> Willie Wagtail
> >>> Grey Fantail
> >>> Pied Monarch
> >>> Magpie-lark
> >>> Satin Flycatcher
> >>> Forest Raven
> >>> Little Raven
> >>> White-winged Chough
> >>> Rose Robin
> >>> Pink Robin
> >>> Flame Robin
> >>> Eurasian Skylark
> >>> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >>> Welcome Swallow
> >>> Fairy Martin
> >>> Tree Martin
> >>> Australian Reed Warbler
> >>> Little Grassbird
> >>> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >>> Common Myna
> >>> Common Starling
> >>> Bassian Thrush
> >>> Common Blackbird
> >>> Mistletoebird
> >>> House Sparrow
> >>> Diamond Firetail
> >>> Red-eared Firetail
> >>> Red-browed Finch
> >>> Zebra Finch
> >>> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >>> European Greenfinch
> >>> <HR>
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> > Message: 6
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:47:09 +1000
> > From: Peter Diegutis <>
> > To: 
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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> > 'Sorry, can't help with your Melbourne list, but I'm locked down in Sydney
> > and have a suggestion if you get extended. I've been working on my COVID
> > cold cases from old photo ID problems. I won't go into the ethics of
> > ticking from a photo but will say I've added 3-4 ticks since the Sydney
> > outbreak. Only last night I finally ID'd Little Ground Tyrant from a trip
> > to Peruvian Amazonia in 2006!
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> > Message: 7
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:33:42 +0930
> > From: Chris Shaw <>
> > To: Birding Aus <>
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] Rain at Gluepot and the Butcherbird
> > Message-ID: <>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > Rain is falling at Gluepot and that is welcome? unless you happen to be a 
> > Butcherbird?
> > 
> > https://www.ararelitus.com/blog/welcome-rain-at-gluepot-reserve 
> > <https://www.ararelitus.com/blog/welcome-rain-at-gluepot-reserve>
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Chris Shaw
> > 
> > +61 409 675912
> > 
> > https://www.ararelitus.com
> > 
> > After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box.  - Italian 
> > proverb 
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> > Message: 8
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:36:37 +0000
> > From: Michael Johnson <>
> > To: Tony Russell <>
> > Cc: "" <>
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > Message-ID:
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> > <>
> >    
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > To be clear, birding would appear to be entirely acceptable so long as it 
> > is undertaken within 5km of home and takes no longer than 2 hours. Taken 
> > directly from the COVIDSafe Settings website:
> > 
> > Outdoor activities that can be undertaken without accessing a facility, 
> > such as hunting, are permitted within the 5km and?2 hour?limits.
> > 
> > If hunting is permitted, then birding surely must.
> > 
> > 
> > From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of Tony 
> > Russell
> > Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2021 8:49 AM
> > To: Russell Woodford <>
> > Cc: Mark Stanley <>; Birding-Aus 
> > <>
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
> > 
> > People shouldn't be moving around just to see birds!!!. Totally 
> > irresponsible.
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, 07:35 Russell Woodford, 
> > <<>> wrote:
> > Hi Mark
> > 
> > Some great birds there! You?ve certainly seen some iconic species this year.
> > 
> > Are you doing this (like I am) as part of the international Bird-a-Day on 
> > Facebook? There?s a few Melbourne participants who may be able to help you. 
> > The key, as I?m sure you?ve realised, is to keep as many ?easy? birds as 
> > possible to use on days when the weather or life itself - or another 
> > lockdown - gets in the way of birding.
> > 
> > The other great resource is eBird. You don?t have to be a member / 
> > contributor to peruse the hotspots for any given species. Of course you?re 
> > probably doing this already, but the eBird app (for members) will show you 
> > what?s been seen in a given radius (1, 2, 5, 10 or 30km from your current 
> > location or any given location) over a defined time period. This has been 
> > invaluable to all of us doing Bird-a-Day eg today I know if I want to see 
> > Russet-tailed Thrush or Striated Thornbill they were both seen yesterday at 
> > a reserve about 45 minutes away. That?s today?s plan!
> > 
> > I notice you don?t have any owls listed. Are you ok with just hearing the 
> > call? There are spots close to you for Boobook and I remember there used to 
> > be Powerful Owls in certain Melbourne parks.    Scarlet Robin was seen at 
> > Royal Park yesterday so there?s a chance of finding a closer one.
> > 
> > Good luck - and hope you can hang on until Tuesday! Some good flyovers 
> > should help!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Russell Woodford
> > 
> > 
> >> On 21 Jul 2021, at 11:56 pm, Mark Stanley 
> >> <<>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> ?
> >> I've been attempting to add a new species every day this year and the 
> >> latest Melbourne 5 Km lockdown is proving a challenge.  I'm based in 
> >> Prahran so limited to roughly from Royal Botanic Gardens to Elwood. 
> >> Laughing Kookaburra and Silvereye are my last realistic options. I would 
> >> then still need 4 more to get me to hopefully an easing of restrictions 
> >> after next Tuesday. Longer shots are a Boobook, Goldfinch (Westgate Pk - 
> >> is just outside my range) , Grey Shrikethrush (Royal Park is also a bit 
> >> far) and perhaps scoping a Little Penguin at St Kilda Pier.
> >> 
> >> I can't see any other obvious gaps in my list below but would welcome any 
> >> suggestions:
> >> 
> >> IOC Name
> >> Emu
> >> Cape Barren Goose
> >> Black Swan
> >> Freckled Duck
> >> Maned Duck
> >> Australasian Shoveler
> >> Pacific Black Duck
> >> Grey Teal
> >> Chestnut Teal
> >> Hardhead
> >> Blue-billed Duck
> >> Musk Duck
> >> Brown Quail
> >> Tawny Frogmouth
> >> White-throated Needletail
> >> Shining Bronze Cuckoo
> >> Fan-tailed Cuckoo
> >> Rock Dove
> >> Spotted Dove
> >> Laughing Dove
> >> Brown Cuckoo-Dove
> >> Common Bronzewing
> >> Brush Bronzewing
> >> Crested Pigeon
> >> Squatter Pigeon
> >> Wompoo Fruit Dove
> >> Superb Fruit Dove
> >> Lewin's Rail
> >> Buff-banded Rail
> >> Australian Crake
> >> Eurasian Coot
> >> Australasian Swamphen
> >> Spotless Crake
> >> Brolga
> >> Australasian Grebe
> >> Hoary-headed Grebe
> >> Great Crested Grebe
> >> Pied Oystercatcher
> >> Sooty Oystercatcher
> >> Pied Stilt
> >> Banded Stilt
> >> Red-necked Avocet
> >> Masked Lapwing
> >> Red-kneed Dotterel
> >> Pacific Golden Plover
> >> Double-banded Plover
> >> Black-fronted Dotterel
> >> Eurasian Whimbrel
> >> Black-tailed Godwit
> >> Hudsonian Godwit
> >> Red Knot
> >> Curlew Sandpiper
> >> Long-toed Stint
> >> Red-necked Stint
> >> Sanderling
> >> Buff-breasted Sandpiper
> >> Latham's Snipe
> >> Common Sandpiper
> >> Marsh Sandpiper
> >> Common Greenshank
> >> Nordmann's Greenshank
> >> Silver Gull
> >> Pacific Gull
> >> Gull-billed Tern
> >> Caspian Tern
> >> Greater Crested Tern
> >> Fairy Tern
> >> White-fronted Tern
> >> Parasitic Jaeger
> >> Light-mantled Albatross
> >> Shy Albatross
> >> Northern Giant Petrel
> >> Short-tailed Shearwater
> >> Australasian Gannet
> >> Australasian Darter
> >> Little Pied Cormorant
> >> Australian Pied Cormorant
> >> Little Black Cormorant
> >> Great Cormorant
> >> Australian White Ibis
> >> Straw-necked Ibis
> >> Glossy Ibis
> >> Royal Spoonbill
> >> Yellow-billed Spoonbill
> >> Australasian Bittern
> >> Black Bittern
> >> Nankeen Night Heron
> >> Eastern Cattle Egret
> >> White-necked Heron
> >> Great-billed Heron
> >> Great Egret
> >> Intermediate Egret
> >> White-faced Heron
> >> Little Egret
> >> Australian Pelican
> >> Western Osprey
> >> Black-shouldered Kite
> >> Pacific Baza
> >> Little Eagle
> >> Grey Goshawk
> >> Brown Goshawk
> >> Collared Sparrowhawk
> >> Whistling Kite
> >> Nankeen Kestrel
> >> Australian Hobby
> >> Peregrine Falcon
> >> Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
> >> Gang-gang Cockatoo
> >> Galah
> >> Long-billed Corella
> >> Little Corella
> >> Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
> >> Regent Parrot
> >> Australian King Parrot
> >> Red-rumped Parrot
> >> Mulga Parrot
> >> Crimson Rosella
> >> Eastern Rosella
> >> Swift Parrot
> >> Blue-winged Parrot
> >> Rock Parrot
> >> Purple-crowned Lorikeet
> >> Musk Lorikeet
> >> Rainbow Lorikeet
> >> Superb Lyrebird
> >> Noisy Scrubbird
> >> Tooth-billed Bowerbird
> >> White-throated Treecreeper
> >> Superb Fairywren
> >> Southern Emu-wren
> >> Mallee Emu-wren
> >> Eastern Spinebill
> >> White-fronted Chat
> >> New Holland Honeyeater
> >> White-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> White-eared Honeyeater
> >> Blue-faced Honeyeater
> >> Brown-headed Honeyeater
> >> White-naped Honeyeater
> >> Purple-gaped Honeyeater
> >> Singing Honeyeater
> >> White-plumed Honeyeater
> >> Western Wattlebird
> >> Red Wattlebird
> >> Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
> >> Bell Miner
> >> Noisy Miner
> >> Rufous Bristlebird
> >> Spotted Pardalote
> >> Striated Pardalote
> >> Weebill
> >> Striated Fieldwren
> >> Redthroat
> >> Speckled Warbler
> >> White-browed Scrubwren
> >> Brown Thornbill
> >> Buff-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow-rumped Thornbill
> >> Yellow Thornbill
> >> Nullarbor Quail-thrush
> >> Australian Magpie
> >> Grey Butcherbird
> >> Pied Currawong
> >> Grey Currawong
> >> Ground Cuckooshrike
> >> Black-faced Cuckooshrike
> >> Varied Sittella
> >> Crested Shriketit
> >> Australian Golden Whistler
> >> Olive-backed Oriole
> >> Willie Wagtail
> >> Grey Fantail
> >> Pied Monarch
> >> Magpie-lark
> >> Satin Flycatcher
> >> Forest Raven
> >> Little Raven
> >> White-winged Chough
> >> Rose Robin
> >> Pink Robin
> >> Flame Robin
> >> Eurasian Skylark
> >> Red-whiskered Bulbul
> >> Welcome Swallow
> >> Fairy Martin
> >> Tree Martin
> >> Australian Reed Warbler
> >> Little Grassbird
> >> Golden-headed Cisticola
> >> Common Myna
> >> Common Starling
> >> Bassian Thrush
> >> Common Blackbird
> >> Mistletoebird
> >> House Sparrow
> >> Diamond Firetail
> >> Red-eared Firetail
> >> Red-browed Finch
> >> Zebra Finch
> >> Blue-faced Parrotfinch
> >> European Greenfinch
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> > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:00:10 +1000
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> > Hunting? Is that mentioned in the Victorian restrictions?
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> > I recall there was debate about this during the big Melbourne lockdown
> > last year because people were getting in trouble for carrying a camera
> > when out walking. I think the rationale for it was that they didn't
> > want people lingering on the paths causing congestion. Don't think
> > there's anything like that this time.
> > 
> > Peter Shute
> > 
> >> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 19:00, Michael Johnson
> >> <> wrote:
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> >> To be clear, birding would appear to be entirely acceptable so long as it 
> >> is undertaken within 5km of home and takes no longer than 2 hours. Taken 
> >> directly from the COVIDSafe Settings website:
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> >> Outdoor activities that can be undertaken without accessing a facility, 
> >> such as hunting, are permitted within the 5km and?2 hour?limits.
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> >> If hunting is permitted, then birding surely must.
> >> 
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> >> 
> >> 
> >> From: Birding-Aus <> On Behalf Of Tony 
> >> Russell
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> >> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Running out of species
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> >> People shouldn't be moving around just to see birds!!!. Totally 
> >> irresponsible.
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