Birdline Central & Southern Queensland
Published sightings for the week ending 22 Dec 2013.
| Sun 22 Dec | Oriental Cuckoo, Musk Lorikeet Anstead Bushland Reserve Two Oriental Cuckoos near the river to the west of the power lines. Also at least one Musk Lorikeet. Rod Gardner` |
| Whiskered Tern Luggage Point 200+ Whiskered Terns resting on the pipeline at 11:00. Elliot Leach |
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| Sat 21 Dec | Tahiti Petrel, Gould’s Petrel, 2 Sooty Terns Southport Pelagic 20-30 Tahiti Petrels today, 1 Gould’s Petrel, 300+ Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, 1 Flesh-footed, 2 Hutton’s, 1 Short-tailed Shearwater, 2 Sooty Terns, 1 Common Tern and Many Crested Terns. Rob Morris – and all on board the Souhport Pelagic organised by Paul Walbridge. |
| Kermadec Petrel Southport Pelagic Approximately 15 today including light, intermediate and dark birds Rob Morris – and all on board the Souhport Pelagic organised by Paul Walbridge. |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird Southport Pelagic An immature as we headed back in (still off the shelf) Rob Morris – and all on board the Souhport Pelagic organised by Paul Walbridge. |
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| White-necked Petrel, Southport Pelagic 2-3 Birds Today Rob Morris – and all on board the Souhport Pelagic organised by Paul Walbridge. |
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| Fri 20 Dec | Red-necked Avocet, Asian Dowitcher Osprey House Environmental Centre 5:30 – 6:15pm. Tide low. Red-necked Avocet (1) Asian Dowitcher (2) After a bit of searching located on opposite bank at bend (channel between islands) in river as viewed from boat access below house several hundred metres upstream of Osprey House. Distant but good views through scope in calm conditions. Chris Attewell |
| Freckled Duck (8), Black Falcon Ti Tree Bioenergy Facility, Willowbank Eight Freckled Ducks on main dam, single Black Falcon perched in a dead tree when I arrived and was still there 2 hours later when I left the site. Elliot Leach |
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| Thu 19 Dec | Spotless Crake Buckley’s Hole, Bribie Island Four Spotless Crake observed on mud edges on eastern side . Single Latham’s Snipe Russ Lamb, Maria Dam, Gary & Marie Davidson |
| Thu 19 Dec | Asian Dowitcher Osprey House Environmental Centre Two Asian Dowitcher on North Pine River at low tide this am, several hundred metres upstream of Osprey House on river bend. Birds showing well, close to mangrove edge with flock of Black-tailed Godwit, just off small basic boatramp below house, before one flew off upstream towards Tinchi Tamba, so could be worth checking here when birds absent at this site. Suspect a male and female as a noticable size difference. Same directions as 8 December. Only thing I would add to the directions/instructions, is bring the aeroguard – the mozzies/sandflies were fierce this am… Andy Jensen |
| Wed 18 Dec | Pale-vented Bush-hen, Spotless Crake wetlands near Corinda Golf Course & driving range, Oxley A pair of Bush-hens and 4 Spotless Crakes calling in wetlands beside parkland between Corinda Golf Course and the golf driving range, Oxley. Crakes were in wet bulrush-sedge swamp; bush-hens along a weed-fringed drain/creek. Roger Jaensch |
| Tue 17 Dec | Grey-crowned Babbler Paringa Rd, Murarrie Not the rarest perhaps, but nice to see a single Grey-crowned Babbler in a low bush on the median strip, whilst waiting at the traffic lights at the junction of Paringa Rd and Lytton Rd Murarrie lunch time today. Ged Tranter |
| Restless Flycatcher, Latham’s Snipe Minnippi Parklands, Tingalpa Obs from about 1 to 1:30. Lots of domestic geese or ducks have been released (presumably) since I was last here. Restless Flycatcher (1) One bird calling constantly. Noted call and all white underparts. Perched on the large central island in some Melaleuca, swooping down frequently for a bath in the lake. Latham’s Snipe (3) Two feeding together along shore of largest island. Another bird seen on one of the smaller islands to the left. Also Collared Kingfisher having a bath. Elliot Leach |
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| Mon 16 Dec | Lewin’s Rail Gold Creek Reservoir Lewin’s Rail (1) One seen well, multiple times between 0640 – 0800 from metal stairs. Sarah Beavis |
| Mon 16 Dec | Lewin’s Rail California Road swamp, Oxley One calling in swampy watercourse with continuous cover dominated by bulrush (Typha sp.) and/or sedge (Bolboschoenus sp.), early morning. Roger Jaensch |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper Manly Boat Harbour At least 6 Broad-billed Sandpipers still present today with many common waders. No sign of the Kelp Gull this morning. A large Blue swimmer crab in the roost pond had a halfhearted grab at a Grey-tailed Tattler. Geoff Walker |
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| Sun 15 Dec | Kelp Gull, Broad-billed Sandpipers Manly Boat Harbour Good morning at the roost with the highlight being a 2nd or 3rd year Kelp Gull. Bird spent most of its time on the Island and although it flew off a couple of times it returned each time. Also at least 7 Broad-billed Sandpipers and good numbers of other common waders (see lists).2 Dugongs showed well close to the rock wall. Stuart Pickering, Colin Reid & Rob Dougherty |
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