Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, July 13, 2015 to Sunday, July 19, 2015: Area: SA Location: Flagstaff Hill Golf Club Adelaide Sth Aust. Superb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) (1) Call heard clearly (as an unknown for the Club) and using a monocular found. Excellent view (of male) from front below with full body and breast colours clear. Second bird heard approx 40M away in another River Red gum but could not be found to view. So far from region that would surely be aviary escapees??? Reported by: Colin Theakstone on Thursday, July 16, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Sunday, July 12, 2015 Location: Laratinga Wetlands, Mt Barker Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) (12) Mostly on the ponds near the picnic area, along with a few Pink-eared Ducks and some of the many Australasian Shovelers. Reported by: Kevin Stracey on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Monday, July 13, 2015 Location: On our Rockleigh property Diamond Firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) (4) The firetails were in our burnt-out “Amazon Jungle”, which is now partly recovering and less unworthy of the name “Jungle”. This is the first time we have been spotted them there. Before Trees for Life direct-seeded in 2009 there were 4 eucalypts and a couple of golden wattles in about 4 hectares. Now there are hundreds of gums up to 3 metres high, and birds are always there. Roos like it too, as there is shelter from the icy winds that roar in from the west. Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 Location: Point Sturt Peninsula Spotted Nightjar (Eurostopodus argus) (2) Two birds disturbed from roost among fallen timber in an Acacia saligna scrub,planted around 25 years ago. Reported by: Nathaniel Doecke on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 ——————————————— Date: Saturday, July 18, 2015 Location: Altona CSR Landcare Reserve, Lyndoch Olive-backed Oriole (Oriolus sagittatus) (2) Seen from near the beginning of the yellow trail: immature birds sat quietly high in a bare tree, actually outside the reserve near the rusty-roofed storage building. Reported by: Kevin Stracey on Saturday, July 18, 2015 ——————————————— Area: WA Date: Saturday, July 18, 2015 Location: Fitzroy Crossing WA Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) (1) Taken at 6.15am in the grounds of the Fitzroy River Lodge at Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley, WA – Photos attached. Reported by: Gordon Pateman on Saturday, July 18, 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?’ ———————————————