Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, April 20, 2015 to Sunday, April 26, 2015: Area: SA Location: Magazine Rd Wetlands Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) (1) 1 only seen swimming with other ducks. Photo attached Reported by: Gordon Pateman on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Monday, April 20, 2015 Location: On our Rockleigh property Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) (1) We have not seen a diamond firetail at our place since February last year. In much the same place we spotted a pair of Australian ringnecks (not common) and a grey fantail (even less common), plus the usual groups of weebills, rosellas etc. Half a dozen New Holland honeyeaters seem to have decided that our creek bed makes a good home, a favourite haunt being a large dead shrub, where they have noisy conferences with brown-headed and singing honeyeaters. Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Friday, April 24, 2015 Location: Toronto St Ovingham Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) (1) Has been visiting our front garden for several days, feeding from Wee Jasper Grevilleas. Have only had very occasional sightings previously (may be partially an observer effect, as we’ve both just retired and are home more often than in the past, but the plantings are also recent). Reported by: David Cox on Friday, April 24, 2015 ——————————————— Need more information about a sighting? Login and contact the poster directly. Receive sightings via email or SMS immediately they are posted. Not a member of Birdpedia? Membership is free and gives you access to information for over 230 countries. To sign up go to the Birdpedia Web Site (http://www.birdpedia.com/). To find out more about Birdpedia and what it can do for you, see ‘What is Birdpedia?’ ———————————————