Hi All,
Just had a report of a possible Short-toed Eagle by Lawrie Conole at Hovel Creek upstream of the Princes Hwy, Lara. See http://tinyurl.com/2bycz92. This site is just past the Beach Rd turn-off to the Western Treatment Plant. Lawrie says that he’s familiar with Short-toed Eagle and is 99% certain of ID.
For further details see http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects. ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ==============================
Stilt Sandpipers, hah, you find them everywhere, Japan, Darwin, Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Austria and Majorca (probably doing a Skase there) Just common vagrant. If Vic. still had a Vagrants Act, it probably would have been locked up as it flew in, because it obviously has no means of support. Doesn’t even have pockets to keep money in.
Carl Clifford
On 27/12/2010, at 8:05 PM, Peter.Fuller@callista.com.au wrote:
Carl wrote:
“Much more exciting than those blow ins they get on Christmas and Cocos.”
*coughs* or a stilt sandpiper. 😉
This is bird of the decade for mine (if its confirmed).
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Yes Carl.
One logical alternative – given issues of commonality and description – to Short-tailed Eagle is pale male Swamp Harrier. They can have a greyiish head, white belly. yellow legs, and longish tail with some barring. Laurie saw the bird twice, at 12:30 and 18:00, so it should be still about. This is a relatively easy place to reach, with a local abundance of birders, so some form of confirmation should be straightforward. A photographs would be good.
As with any bird report, ‘possibility’ sightings are a standard part of birding and bird reporting. I lost count of how many ‘possible’ birds I’ve seen, some rejected and accepted. Questioning what you seen is good practice.
As a complete aside to this, (for some reason) I recently revisited a memory of a small group of birds I’d seen when I was 10 yrs old. Completely stumped at the time, I now realised they were immature Brown Treecreeper.
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
________________________________________ Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 4:36 PM Cc: birding-aus@vicnet.net.au
Tim,
Do you mean Circaetus gallicus? If it is, it certainly is a bit lost, at least 8,500 Km from normal range, in India, not to mention the distance to it’s European breeding areas or it’s African range. If so, it is a truly exciting find. If there is one in Vic., I wonder how many may be between there and Northern Australia, where it has probably entered the country after island hopping down the Indonesian Archipelago from Thailand or Malaysia. It is on the official Malaysian list, so it is not unreasonable to expect one (or more) to wander down through through the Sundas to Australia.
They are a handsome bird, I used to see them regularly on the Pays de Sault in the French Pyrenees feeding up after hay cutting, prior to heading down to Africa.
Well done Lawrie, certainly the sighting of 2010. Much more exciting than those blow ins they get on Christmas and Cocos.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Hi All,
Just had a report of a possible Short-toed Eagle by Lawrie Conole at Hovel Creek upstream of the Princes Hwy, Lara. See http://tinyurl.com/2bycz92 . This site is just past the Beach Rd turn-off to the Western Treatment Plant. Lawrie says that he’s familiar with Short-toed Eagle and is 99% certain of ID.
For further details see http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects. ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ==============================
This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects. ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ==============================
So would we all Lawrie – hope you are right.
Tony
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Tim,
Do you mean Circaetus gallicus? If it is, it certainly is a bit lost, at least 8,500 Km from normal range, in India, not to mention the distance to it’s European breeding areas or it’s African range. If so, it is a truly exciting find. If there is one in Vic., I wonder how many may be between there and Northern Australia, where it has probably entered the country after island hopping down the Indonesian Archipelago from Thailand or Malaysia. It is on the official Malaysian list, so it is not unreasonable to expect one (or more) to wander down through through the Sundas to Australia.
They are a handsome bird, I used to see them regularly on the Pays de Sault in the French Pyrenees feeding up after hay cutting, prior to heading down to Africa.
Well done Lawrie, certainly the sighting of 2010. Much more exciting than those blow ins they get on Christmas and Cocos.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Hi All,
Just had a report of a possible Short-toed Eagle by Lawrie Conole at Hovel Creek upstream of the Princes Hwy, Lara. See http://tinyurl.com/2bycz92 . This site is just past the Beach Rd turn-off to the Western Treatment Plant. Lawrie says that he’s familiar with Short-toed Eagle and is 99% certain of ID.
For further details see http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
This email, including any attachment, is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. It is confidential and may contain personal information or be subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure, reproduction or storage of it is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender via return email and delete it from your system immediately. Victoria University does not warrant that this email is free from viruses or defects and accepts no liability for any damage caused by such viruses or defects. ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ==============================
===============================
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) href=”mailto:birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au”>birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
http://birding-aus.org ===============================