Birdline Tasmania Weekly Update

Birdline Tasmania Published sightings for the week ending 7 Sep 2014. Thu 4 Sep Masked Owl (2), Morepork Ridgeway Park On the western side of the reservoir at around 1040 hrs, a Masked Owl called and another responded immediately with a screech and trill. After a period of silence, one bird flew over the road towards the reservoir and was lost to sight. Shortly after, the other bird gave another brief trill. Morepork heard calling sporadically from somewhere above Ridgeway from 0945-1145 hrs. Paul Brooks Tue 2 Sep Swift Parrot Cnr Dunne Drive and Big Roaring Beach Road, Surveyors Bay Three Swift Parrots observed feeding and darting in black gums (ovata). Covey of 6 Brown Quail flushed from long grass on vacant block at same site. Five Welcome swallows sighted 50m from Big Roaring Beach – the first for spring this far south. Cath de Little