Raja and I saw the following during the Christmas break:
Round Hill, 27/12:
Malleefowl 1 (crossed Murrin Bridge Rd, 9.9 km SE of the T-junction with Euabalong-Mt Hope Rd at 8:15 pm) Painted Button-quail 1, Nombinnie track Chestnut Quail-thrush 2, Nombinnie track Gilbert’s Whistler 2, Nombinnie track Several Southern Scrub-robins, Shy Heathwrens, Gould’s Monitors and Bell’s Lace Monitor, but no Red-lored Whistler this time. Whoey Tank, 27/12: Australian Owlet Nightjar 1 Eastern Barn Owl 1 Spotted Bowerbird 3 Orange Chat 2 Plus the usual honeyeaters, Blue Bonnets, Mallee Ringnecks, Pallid Cuckoos, White-browed and Masked Woodswallows (including one White-browed x Masked hybrid) and many feral goats and honey bees Lake Cargelligo STP, 27/12: Little Egret: 1 Glossy Ibis: 4 Baillon’s Crake: 2 Australian Spotted Crake: 3 Spotless Crake: 1 Cockatiel: 1 male Gum Swamp, Forbes, 28/12: Freckled Duck: 27 Blue-billed Duck: 1 Little Egret: 1 Glossy Ibis: 1 Yellow-billed Spoonbill: 8 Cockatiel: 1 male Back Yamma SF, 29/12: 150 White-throated Needletail (together with White-browed and Masked Woodswallows), two swiftly fly-by Neophema spec. (likely Turquoise Parrot) Orange, 29/12: Black Falcon: 1 Capertee/Genowlan Bridge, 30/12: White-backed Swallow 1 Painted Honeyeater 4+ Capertee/Wollemi section behind Oskas Cottage, 31/12: White-throated Nightjar 2 Brush Cuckoo several Cicadabird 2 Satin Flycatcher 1 pair Leaden Flycatcher 2 pairs Capertee/Glen Davis, 31/12: Buff-banded Rail Australian Koel Capertee/Crown Station, 01/01: Plum-headed Finch Happy New Year!
Nikolas
________________________________ Sent: Friday, 4 January 2013 10:02 PM
Raja and I saw the following during the Christmas break:
Round Hill, 27/12:
Malleefowl 1 (crossed Murrin Bridge Rd, 9.9 km SE of the T-junction with Euabalong-Mt Hope Rd at 8:15 pm) Painted Button-quail 1, Nombinnie track Chestnut Quail-thrush 2, Nombinnie track Gilbert’s Whistler 2, Nombinnie track Several Southern Scrub-robins, Shy Heathwrens, Gould’s Monitors and Bell’s Lace Monitor, but no Red-lored Whistler this time. Whoey Tank, 27/12: Australian Owlet Nightjar 1 Eastern Barn Owl 1 Spotted Bowerbird 3 Orange Chat 2 Plus the usual honeyeaters, Blue Bonnets, Mallee Ringnecks, Pallid Cuckoos, White-browed and Masked Woodswallows (including one White-browed x Masked hybrid) and many feral goats and honey bees Lake Cargelligo STP, 27/12: Little Egret: 1 Glossy Ibis: 4 Baillon’s Crake: 2 Australian Spotted Crake: 3 Spotless Crake: 1 Cockatiel: 1 male Gum Swamp, Forbes, 28/12: Freckled Duck: 27 Blue-billed Duck: 1 Little Egret: 1 Glossy Ibis: 1 Yellow-billed Spoonbill: 8 Cockatiel: 1 male Back Yamma SF, 29/12: 150 White-throated Needletail (together with White-browed and Masked Woodswallows), two swiftly fly-by Neophema spec. (likely Turquoise Parrot) Orange, 29/12: Black Falcon: 1 Capertee/Genowlan Bridge, 30/12: White-backed Swallow 1 Painted Honeyeater 4+ Capertee/Wollemi section behind Oskas Cottage, 31/12: White-throated Nightjar 2 Brush Cuckoo several Cicadabird 2 Satin Flycatcher 1 pair Leaden Flycatcher 2 pairs Capertee/Glen Davis, 31/12: Buff-banded Rail Australian Koel Capertee/Crown Station, 01/01: Plum-headed Finch Happy New Year!
Nikolas