Just a belated report about a juvenile Dollarbird seen and photographed by Hobart photographer Ian Robertson at Pieman Heads (mouth of the Pieman River at the southern end of the Tarkine region in NW/W Tasmania) on 9 April.
Allan Ible and I met Ian and Carol Robertson on the Pieman River Cruise on 9 April. After reboarding the Arcadia II following a lunch stop at Pieman Heads, Ian showed Allan and me the photograph he had taken of a bird that landed on a dead tree amongst some shacks – clearly a Dollarbird.
The sighting has been reported to Birdline Tasmania with a photograph supplied by Ian. I understand that there have been only a handful of sightings in the past hundred years, with one reported to birdingaus in March 2007 by Ian May (a juvenile seen at Scamander on the east coast).
Allan and I also managed to track down 6 Blue-winged Parrots on the Sealers Springs Road, west of Smithton in NW Tasmania, on 7 April – a new bird for both of us. They were variously perched in a small row of Melaleuca saplings in a paddock or flying about. We watched them on and off (through binoculars and a telescope) for about half an hour.
Jenny Madeline & Allan Ible
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