Monday 22 August 2016

Winter Bird Survey

Wood ducks checking out nesting sites
Some notable highlights from the Winter Bird Survey provided by Tom Clarke included
  • The brief sighting of a Spotted Harrier, a Vulnerable Species, at Threlkeld Reserve. 
  • A Pheasant Coucal was flushed out of the reeds and the Eastern Whipbird reappeared at Noorumba Reserve. Another whipbird was heard in a gully on the West Ridge 
  • A magpie aggregation of 25 individuals was experienced at the Pony club- Hampton St Reserve 
  • The Satin Bowerbird’s bower construction at Carey Bay Wetlands has taken on the medium density flavour with 3 bowers complete and active. Multiple bowers within a bird’s territory is not unusual and upto 10 may be constructed at varying levels of completeness. 
The full Winter Bird Survey can be read online.

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