Birdline Tasmania Weekly Update

Birdline Tasmania Published sightings for the week ending 25 Jan 2015. Fri 23 Jan Royal Spoonbill Queechy Lake Approximately four Royal Spoonbills nesting in trees at Queechy Lake. Helen Cunningham Black-winged Stilt Lake Dulverton Conservation Area (Oatlands) Two adults with two juveniles on the eastern most lake just east of the walkway between the lakes. Els Wakefield and Karen Dick Thu 22 Jan Swift Parrot Mulgrave St, South Launceston Approx. 50 Swift Parrots feeding in a flowering eucalypt. Most appeared to be immature birds. Des Wingfield Wed 21 Jan Pacific Swift (5) Margate, Tabors Road At about 8.30pm at the start of our evening walk, we were alerted to 5 birds calling overhead. Without binoculars we were uncertain but suspected Pacific Swift. This was confirmed after returning home and listening to their call on an app. Rob and Vicki Hamilton Mon 19 Jan Freckled Duck (40) Queechy Lake 40 Freckled Ducks – northern end – flushed from willows. Also Dusky Moorhen, Australasian Shovellers, Hardheads etc. [Moderator’s note: this is the largest number of Freckled Ducks seen at one site since the species began to appear in Tasmania nearly two years ago and suggests that the influx may still be occurring. PB] Rodger Willows and Alison Roach