Hi all,
Back before Christmas I put an RFI out for Olive Whistlers in the Greater Melbourne area as it was the last passerine between there and Sydney that I was yet to catch up with (despite having heard it on several occasions). I was overwhelmed with the number of replies – certainly the most I have had for any enquiry – and was set with a dozen locations to visit during the Christmas break.
However the inner-twitcher kicked in an whilst I had planned a couple of day trips to finally bag my bird I ended up on failed missions chasing up reports on Painted Snipe and Broad-billed Sandpipers.
Anyhow, since then I have been all over the place (except Melbourne) and therefore hadn’t had a chance to follow up on all the leads I had been given. That was until this weekend.
On Sunday morning I popped up to Toolangi State Forest accompanied by Tony Keene who was visiting from Adelaide for the weekend. Stopping off by the Wirrawalla walk, Toolangi was cold and devoid of much life at all – just a couple of scruffy Spinebills hopping about. In about 2.5 hours I think we had clocked up a pathetic 6 species. Certainly very different to my prior visit in early December when it was buzzing.
Resigned to yet another OW defeat we tramped back to the car. About 30 meters up the boardwalk from where the car was parked Tony notice something dull fly quickly into the top of a tree fern – and after much waiting the critter showed itself. At last I got that Olive Whilstler! (Actually what I really said at the time wouldn’t make it through the B-AUs filter…).
So I just wanted to thank all those people who sent me info. I did promise you all that I’d let you know how I got on – apologies for the delay – but up until this weekend there was nothing to report.
Steve Davidson and Gil Langfield get the shout out as they both recommended sticking to Toolangi – a place I had tried a couple of times before.
Cheers all,
Ed
Ed Williams Kingsville, VIC
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