October 2010

In  October  2010 a very good score of 97 species of birds were recorded in the catchment area of the Gazette with 16 species recorded as breeding.  Thanks to several observers in: Hoskinstown; the Molonglo Valley, Primrose Valley, Radcliffe, Wanna Wanna and Widgiewa Road.   

Migrants are shown in italics below and species for which breeding (broadly defined) has been observed this month are underlined.

1  Waterbirds:  Australian Shelduck; Australian Wood Duck; Grey Teal; Chestnut Teal, Pacific Black Duck; Australasian Grebe; Little Pied Cormorant; Little Black Cormorant; White-faced Heron; Eurasian Coot; Masked Lapwing

2 Birds of Prey:  Brown Goshawk; Collared Sparrowhawk; Wedge-tailed Eagle; Little Eagle; Nankeen Kestrel; Brown Falcon; Peregrine Falcon.

3 Parrots and Relatives:  Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo; Gang‑gang Cockatoo; Galah;  Sulphur‑crested Cockatoo; Australian King-parrot, Crimson Rosella; Eastern Rosella; Red-rumped parrot

4 Kingfishers and other non-songbirds: Rock Dove; Common Bronzewing; Crested Pigeon; Tawny Frogmouth; Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo; Black-eared Cuckoo; Shining Bronze-cuckoo; Pallid Cuckoo; Fan-tailed Cuckoo; Brush Cuckoo; Southern Boobook; Laughing Kookaburra; Sacred Kingfisher

5 Honeyeaters: Eastern Spinebill; Yellow-faced Honeyeater; White-eared Honeyeater; Noisy Miner; Red Wattlebird; New Holland Honeyeater; Brown‑headed Honeyeater; White-naped Honeyeater; Noisy Friarbird

6 Flycatchers and similar species: Rufous Whistler; Grey Shrike-thrush; Grey Fantail; Willie Wagtail; Leaden Flycatcher; Magpie-lark; Jacky Winter; Scarlet Robin; Flame Robin; Eastern Yellow Robin; Welcome Swallow; Fairy Martin; Tree Martin

7 Thornbills, Finches and similar species:  Superb Fairy-wren; White-browed Scrubwren; Weebill; Western Gerygone; White-throated Gerygone; Striated Thornbill; Yellow‑rumped Thornbill; Buff‑rumped Thornbill; Brown Thornbill; Spotted Pardalote; Striated Pardalote; Silvereye; Double‑barred Finch; Red-browed Finch; Diamond Firetail; House Sparrow; European Goldfinch

8 Other, smaller birds:  White-throated Treecreeper; Spotted Quail-thrush; Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike; Olive-backed Oriole; Dusky Woodswallow; Skylark; Australian Reed-warbler; Common Blackbird; Common Starling; Mistletoebird; Australasian  Pipit;

9  Other, larger birds: Satin Bowerbird; Grey Butcherbird; Australian Magpie; Pied Currawong; Grey Currawong; Australian Raven; Little Raven; White-winged Chough

Birding Locations    

This month the location is the part of Cuumbeun Nature Reserve which hosted the Annual Wildflower Walk.  The flowers were great, the hospitality was great but as reported in the Bulletin the birds were mostly hiding from the wind.  Here follows the list that I compiled, with the help of others in the party.

Crested Pigeon; Little Pied Cormorant; Crimson Rosella; White-throated Treecreeper, Superb Fairy‑wren; Striated Thornbill; Yellow-rumped Thornbill; Spotted Pardalote; Yellow-faced Honeyeater; Red Wattlebird; Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike; Rufous Whistler; Olive-backed Oriole; Australian Magpie; Grey Fantail; Australian Raven; Leaden Flycatcher.