The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, March 20, 2017 to Sunday, March 26, 2017:
Area: SA
Location: Goolwa Ponds (Hessell Road ) Goolwa
Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (1) Single bird on big pond along with 300 Coot
Australian Spotted Crake (Porzana fluminea) (1) Single bird in the overflow area.
Black-fronted Dotterel (Elseyornis melanops) (7) Birds were in the overflow area
Reported by: Winston Syson on Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Location: Globe Derby Park
Eastern Reef Egret (Egretta sacra) (1) refer to green legs?
Great Egret (Casmerodius albus) (1) non breeding plumage?
Reported by: Heather Connolly on Thursday, March 23, 2017
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Date: Saturday, March 25, 2017
Location: On our Rockleigh property
Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) (3) A few weeks ago we twice flushed a common bronzewing out of a very dense Hakea bush near our shed. Then 2 weeks ago we found a nest with 2 large white eggs, which fitted some of the Google images of bronzewing eggs. Wrong ! Today there are 2 tiny feathered crested pigeons ! The parent flew out, and the baby with its head sticking up has a very conspicuous crest. Sorry, no photos, the bush is too dense to get a clear image.
Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) (1) For the first time in the 8 years we have owned our place, I thought I heard a spinebill calling. Then I had a very brief glimpse of the silhouette of the bird with its long down-curved bill. This was added to our species list at number 84.
White-winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) (7) A small party of choughs comes and goes, and for a while they roosted under our veranda, making an unimaginable mess of droppings on table and chairs and the old Subaru. Then they went elsewhere a couple of months ago, and I was just about to get out scrubbing brush and hot water to clean up. Then, guess what, the unmistakeable sound of choughs in the creekbed. I spent the day weeding instead.
New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae) (4) A small group of New Holland honeyeaters uses the trees in the creek line from time to time. In 2016 we only saw them from January to March, in 2015 from March to June. They have reappeared this month and are feeding on flowers of Eucalyptus occidentalis, a Western Australian species that shouldn’t be there. These eucs grow in damp places; they seeded prolifically after the bushfire, and are now forming a dense stand along the creek. Birds love them, and it is usually our best birding spot.
Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Saturday, March 25, 2017
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