Winter Birding 2014– Merryl Wright

This Winter, the group hasvisited 16 different sites on Monday outingsand recorded a total of128different species and 8,904individual birds. We had to abandon most of our day at Picnic Point when drizzle turned to rain. But overall, our Mondays were fine and dry, with plenty of birds about, even though many were not calling.

The locationswhere most species were recorded during Monday outingsthis winterwere Bruthen Loop Walk and Rail Trail (59), Nowa Nowa Reserve (49), Nyerimilang Park(48)and Goldsmiths in the Forest B&B (47).

Favourite or unusual bird sightingswould be Fluttering Shearwaters seen from the lookout over the Lakes at Nyerimilang Park, a dense raft of 1000 Eurasian Coots at Wattle Point being teased by dolphins popping up from below to give the birds a fright, White-throated Gerygones at Log Crossing, and many sightings of Scarlet and Crescent Honeyeaters.

Here is a list of sites visited on our regular outings and thespecies list for birds recorded this Winter:

Boys Camp, Mt Taylor
Bush Family Reserve
Picnic Point, Bairnsdale
Nyerimilang Heritage Park, Kalimna
Point Fullarton, Paynesville
Goldsmiths B&B, Lakes Entrance / Nowa Nowa Reserve, Fairweather Track, Nowa Nowa
Quarry and Oil Bore Crossing, Discovery Track Colquhoun Forest
Bruthen Rail Trail and Loop Walk
Log Crossing, Colquhoun Forest
Pettmans Beach, Trident Arm. Lake Tyers Forest Park
Emu
Black Swan
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Australasian Shoveler
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Pacific Black Duck
Hardhead
Australasian Grebe
Hoary-headed Grebe
Spotted Dove
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Wonga Pigeon
Australian Owlet-nightjar
Fluttering Shearwater
Australasian Gannet
Australasian Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White-necked Heron
Eastern Great Egret
Cattle Egret
White-faced Heron
Nankeen Night Heron
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Whistling Kite
Swamp Harrier
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Little Eagle
Brown Falcon
Australian Hobby
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Australian Pied Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Masked Lapwing
Caspian Tern
Crested Tern
Pacific Gull
Silver Gull
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
Gang-gang Cockatoo
Galah
Little Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Musk Lorikeet
Little Lorikeet
Australian King Parrot
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Azure Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra
Superb Lyrebird
White-throated Treecreeper
Satin Bowerbird
Superb Fairy-wren
White-browed Scrubwren
Brown Gerygone
White-throated Gerygone
Striated Thornbill
Yellow Thornbill
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Buff-rumped Thornbill
Brown Thornbill
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Eastern Spinebill
Lewin's Honeyeater
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
White-eared Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
Bell Miner
Noisy Miner
Little Wattlebird
Red Wattlebird
White-fronted Chat
Scarlet Honeyeater
Crescent Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
Noisy Friarbird
Spotted Quail-thrush
Eastern Whipbird
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Crested Shrike-tit
Golden Whistler
Grey Shrike-thrush
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Grey Currawong
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Australian Raven
Forest Raven
Little Raven
Restless Flycatcher
Magpie Lark
White-winged Chough
Jacky Winter
Scarlet Robin
Flame Robin
Rose Robin
Eastern Yellow Robin
Silvereye
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Bassian Thrush
Common Blackbird
Common Starling
Common Myna
Mistletoebird
Red-browed Finch
House Sparrow
Australasian Pipit
European Goldfinch
Total Species 128
Total individual birds 8904