Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, August 26, 2019 to Sunday, September 1, 2019:

Area: SA

Location: Port Elliot Sewage ponds Hill Street Port Elliot.

Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (40) Most birds were resting on the side of the plastic lined pond.

Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (5) 3 male and 2 female swimming with other ducks.

Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) (65) On the bank and swimming with other species,same pond as for Freckled and Blue billed.

Reported by: Winston Syson on Thursday, August 29, 2019

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Date: Sunday, September 1, 2019

Location: On our Rockleigh property

Rufous Songlark (Cincloramphus mathewsi) (1) Species number 89 (over 11 years) ! On arriving at our front gate the songlark was sitting on a low branch of a dead tree 20 metres away, singing. We used to see brown songlarks but the bushfire in January 2014 sent them somewhere else, and one has not been seen since

White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) (2) The only other time a triller has been seen was in October 2013, a male. Today a pair perched briefly in a gum tree in the creek line, the male singing. Soon they vanished.

White-winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) (4) Choughs have again nested in the creek line. This time the nest is in a tree very close to the road. There was quite a racket going on, which turned out to be a very large chick begging after its parent flew away. It had difficulty extracting a wing from the nest to have a practice flap. I was only able to identify it as a chick by the unkempt feathers on top of its head

White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus superciliosus) (6-8) Babblers are more or less resident, and today there were at least 2 groups. 2 were in a dead Acacia outside our shed. Both had a fat orange centipede dangling from their bills, and instead of sensibly sitting still and eating their meal they bounced around the twigs trying to flick the uncooperative centipedes into a position where they could swallow them.

Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Sunday, September 1, 2019

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