Green birding 2012

For the last 2 years a group in North America have promoted green birding and this has led an affiliated (or at least like-minded - I am unsure of the formalities or politics) set up a Big Green Day event.  The basic idea is not to use petrol etc while doing your birding.  It doesn't have to be a full day and for the Carwoola part my contribution started at 5pm on 6 May and finished at 1pm on 7 May (when I took the car into town).   Basically there were two bits to my observations:

1. a walk round our property starting at about 8am; and
2. a bike ride from our place to Hoskinstown(ish) starting about 10am. 

I wrote down 44 species in that time.  Quite a few usual suspects were not seen (Crested Pigeon, Red Wattlebird; Masked Lapwing; Weebill, ...) and next year I must give it a better go!

Australian Shelduck, 2 flying over Briars-Sharrow Road
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Australasian Grebe
Tawny Frogmouth, 2 Whiskers Creek Rd
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant, 2 on dam in middle of Plains Rd
Black-shouldered kite, at least 3 at various spots on the Plain
Nankeen kestrel
Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo
Galah
Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Red-rumped parrot, 6 flew over Windemere Cottage, Plains Rd
Laughing Kookaburra
White-throated treecreeper
Superb Fairy-wren
White-browed scrubwren
Yellow-rumped thornbill
Buff-rumped thornbill
Brown thornbill
Spotted pardalote
Striated pardalote
Eastern spinebill
Golden whistler
Grey shrike-thrush
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Grey currawong
Willie wagtail
Australian Raven
Little Raven, app 50 at various spots where they could scrounge food along Plains Rd
Magpie-lark
Scarlet robin, male, Plains Rd
Flame robin, female, Plains Rd
Eastern Yellow Robin, WhiskersCreek
Welcome swallow
Common starling
Double-barred finch
Red-browed finch
Diamond Firetail, about 5km down Plains Rd
House sparrow
Australasian pipit

I also fitted in a couple of episodes in Sri Lanka - worrying a little that flying to Sri Lanka is hardly Green.  But my hair shirt is a tad thin these days!