Hi all, I read an email here a few days back saying how wonderful East Gippsland is looking at the moment and I want to agree, totally. We went down for the Labour Day weekend and over 3 days I saw more than 100 species including the Beach Stone-curlew, Beautiful Firetail, Lyrebird, Large-billed Scrubwren, Southern Emu-wren, Pilotbird in full display in the sun at East Cape and three species of owl; Masked, Sooty and Powerful. Interestingly, after many years of birding, it was the first Powerful Owl I have seen at night. Normally I don’t go looking for them in the dark, I just see them during the day with some possum clenched in a talon. My dip for the weekend? There has been a White-headed Pigeon hanging out on the power poles in Marlo, across from the hotel. We tried at least three times a day and there was no sign of it. Bother! We were based in Orbost but there are good caravan parks at Marlo too. There has been no fire damage south of the Princes Highway and the bush is in very good condition. cheers Jenny http://jenniferspryausbirding.blogspot.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
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Barbara The Spotted Harrier was at the approach to the northern end of the airstrip. It was flying from the direction of the lake towards Arthur Kaine Drive. I wouldn’t have been too confident of my identification of the Black Falcon but I had very good views of one at Mallacoota a few years ago and know that they occasionally appear in your part of the world. I was more or less anticipating the second sighting and it was very clear. We saw a couple of Whipbirds at Bournda and my wife saw several when she was walking on Elizabeth Street in Merimbula. The variation in Whipbird calls in Merimbula was interesting. We had a great view of a male Lyrebird on our way back to the highway from Wallagaraugh River Retreat this morning. Cheers David On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Far South Coast Birdwatchers < fscbirds@bigpond.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
I was at Cape Conran last week and will be returning to East Gippsland tomorrow. While I didn’t bother looking for birds, I was more than content to observe those that came close to me. My best experience was a White-browed Scrub Wren that perched on my big toe for approximately 30 seconds. The birds there (and at Bournda NP and Merimbula) must be habituated to people and are quite fearless in going about their business in close proximity to people. I should say that I saw a Black Falcon (twice) at Bournda and a Spotted Harrier at Merimbula. Cheers David On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jenny Spry <malurus.jenny@gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org