[Birding-Aus] Birdpedia - Australia - Weekly Digest
Birdpedia - Australia Info
Area: SA
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Location: Thompson Beach
Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) (1) One seen at 1800hrs, feeding in shallow water, 600m South of southern carpark.
Fairy Tern (Sterna nereis) (1) 82 counted in group + approximately 20 scattered nearby. They were resting near the tidal margin at 1400hrs, directly in front of the central carpark.
The day was very warm with gusting Northerly winds. The banded stilt hordes did not start arriving (from the North) at the sandflats to the South of the central carpark until after 1430hrs, leaving the best feeding areas to numerous red knots and approximately 150 great knots. The other usual migratory wader species (Bar-tailed godwit, common greenshank, red-necked stint, etc.) were present in smaller numbers. We counted 12 grey plovers.
High tide at 1600hrs was only 1.7m, enabling the waders to continue feeding until dusk on an outgoing tide.
Reported by: Jeff Philcox on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Location: On our property at Rockleigh
White-browed Woodswallow (Artamus superciliosus) (1) We knew the woodswallows were nearby, as they were seen a couple of kilometres down the road. Today one bird was heard calling overhead, then was spotted. This is species 60 recorded for our land (although the general number of species seen in any weekend is 12-18).
After a couple of months with NO welcome swallows roosting under our veranda (or indeed seen in the creek bed), after there having been up to 150 in the three preceding years, about 10 took shelter from torrential rain last Wednesday. Last night 2 roosted under tthe veranda. Where have they gone ?
Reported by: Barbara and Peter Bansemer on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Date: Sunday, March 25, 2012
Location: Jones Road, Hahndorf.
Musk Duck (Biziura lobata) (2) Two. One at either side of dam, close to shoreline closest to road.
Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) (12) A compact group, well out from road, close to far wall of dam.
These observations refer to the larger dam, closest to Hahndorf. Water levels both on this dam and on Hanna Lake were low, exposing broad, muddy, shorelines.
Reported by: Bob Snell on Sunday, March 25, 2012
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Birdpedia - Australia Info
Area: SA
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Location: Kangaroo Island
Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus) (200) see over Kingscote and Nepean Bay on 14 March 2012 during N wind thunderstorm
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) feeding amongst beach strewn boulders at Stokes Bay rocky beach, 25 March 2012.
Rock Parrot (Neophema petrophila) (5) in coastal heath at Seal Bay, 25 March 2012.
Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) (1) sub adult male on dead tree in Middle River estuary, 25 March 2012. Three seen here previously-past month or so-as reported in past Birdpedia posting.
Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Glossopsitta porphyrocephala) (50+) feeding noisily in several flowering Cup Gums E. cosmophylla, main street of Parndana, 26 March 2012.
Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) (1) fresh beach derelict, Vivonne Bay, 4 March 2012.
Rock Parrot (Neophema petrophila) (15) feeding in coastal succulents at Point Ellen, Vivonne Bay, 8 March 2012-mostly immatures.
Elegant Parrot (Neophema elegans) (1) flew across South Coast Road 10km W of Vivonne Bay. Pasture and coastal mallee association.
Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis) (11) Nine adults and two grey-headed immatures, together at Harriet River Mouth during storm tide surge at Vivonne Bay, 4 March 2012.
White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) (3) adult pair and an immature perched on cliff face and then swooping for a fish, Western River Cove, 10 March 2012.
Reported by: Chris Baxter on Wednesday, March 28, 2012