Bird Morning : Saturday 12th August : Neil Macumber
Eleven members and myself met at the Corner of O’Sullivan’s Road and Mount Victory Road on what appeared to be a very pleasant sunny morning with lots of birds calling. By the time everyone had arrived and we had driven a little over one kilometre to start our bird-walk the clouds had rolled in and it had become noticeably duller with a lot less birds calling. Following Neil (blindly!) …can everybody see it?
Nevertheless, we did manage to record a total of 25 species of bird for the morning. Bird species either seen or heard by me were: – Galah, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Long-billed Corella, Musk Lorikeet, Crimson Rosella, Eastern Rosella, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, White-plumed Honeyeater, Red Wattlebird, Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, Brown-headed Honeyeater, Fuscous Honeyeater, Weebill, Spotted Pardalote, Grey Shrike thrush, Willie Wagtail, Magpie, Magpie Lark, White-winged Chough, Grey Currawong, Australian Raven, Little Raven, Flame Robin, Grey Fantail and Kookaburra. There were no birds recorded that were unexpected or vagrants to the area but Yellow-tufted and Fuscous Honeyeater, Eastern Rosella and Flame Robin are all beautiful and great to see. Grey Currawong numbers seem to be in decline, so one seen out there was also very nice. After the bird-walk most of us drove the short distance over to Judith Thompsons property to have our lunch. Lunch was followed by a short walk to look for and photograph the 3 species of Greenhood Orchids (Nodding – Pterostylis nutans, Dwarf – Pterostylis nana and Trim – Pterostylis concinna) that were flowering in profusion on Judith’s property – thank you Judith.
Long Billed corella and spotted Pardalote