The Summer Bird Survey around Coal Point has been conducted and the highlights included
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| Olive-Backed Oriole |
The raptor alarm, provided by the local Noisy Miner gang, went up at Carey Bay Wetlands and just in time to see an Australian Hobby dash overhead. These birds will race over the canopy hoping to ambush some small bush bird. The Noisy Miner alarm call is well known throughout the bird community and serves them well.
A second time observation of White-browed Scrubwren (2 individuals) at Norumba Reserve is exciting.
Whipbird calls were confined to the bottom of Burnage Reserve this time around. A probable female bird appears to have returned to this site after nearly two years of wandering elsewhere.
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| Channel-Billed Cuckoo |
A wonderful close encounter with a Variegated Fairy-wren family at West Ridge was an absolute delight. Both parents plus two recently fledged youngsters were discovered within some grass and other low vegetation. The youngsters were fully-feathered, however tail development was not very advanced.
Another sighting of a Brown Goshawk as it was harassed by the local Noisy Miners on West Ridge.
An adult Olive-backed Oriole with a dependent but fledged juvenile was found at Stansfield Reserve.
Sitting quietly and calling softly in a shrub at Threlkeld Reserve was an apparently abandoned juvenile Channel-billed Cuckoo.
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