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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1312095" data-attributes="member: 27337"><p><strong>Wombats and Koalas</strong></p><p></p><p>Before leaving South Australia we visited Piccaninni Pond and nearby Dry Creek where we had great views of 2 wombats in the evening at an active colony on the marked walk, amazing creatures. This area also produced the first non-feral <strong>Long-billed Corellas</strong> we'd identified so far, and Piccaninni produced a geat view of a <strong>Beautiful Firetail </strong>from bed in the morning. Other birds in these areas that we were more used to a few months ago included <strong>Eastern Yellow Robin, Striated </strong>and <strong>Brown Thornbills, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Yellow-faced Honeyeater</strong> and <strong>Eastern Spinebill</strong>.</p><p></p><p>We then headed for Little Desert NP in Victoria hoping for <strong>Malleefowl</strong>. We had no luck wandering around, and the word "aviary" put us off the Whimpey's Lodge captive breeding program trip, though apparently these birds might be tickable as the fence was built around them rather than them being put within the fence! We did see a large mixed flock of c200 <strong>White-browed </strong>and <strong>Masked Woodswallows </strong>here though.</p><p></p><p>We then passed through the Grampians, noting a few <strong>Gang-gang Cockatoos</strong>, a couple of <strong>Bassian Thrushes</strong>, and a surprise lifer in the form of 2 male <strong>Flame Robins</strong> that put on a real interactive performance at a lookout called the balconies.</p><p></p><p>We travelled fairly quickly along the Great Ocean Road after hitting the coast. A stop at the Loch Ard Cemetery was good for numbers of calling <strong>Rufous Bristlebirds</strong>, and we had great views of one of these skulkers. An Australian Crake was also seen at midday en route (Prince Town?) at a site that looked great for <strong>bitterns</strong> if we had more time. We made it to Cape Otway that night. Massive numbers of <strong>Short-tailed Shearwaters </strong>passed by in the evening and well into next day as we headed further east. A few <strong>mollymawks</strong> were too distant to id. Cape Otway also produced <strong>Satin Bowerbird </strong>and <strong>Crescent Honeyeater</strong>. Big highlight here though was 3 Koala sightings, including a mother with a young one. Very cute.</p><p></p><p>We picked up a goodie just south of Anglesea in the form of a smart <strong>Hooded Plover</strong> after a walk of about 3km along the beach from below Urquart bluff.</p><p></p><p>On the way into Melbourne we hoped to pop into Werribee western treatment plant, but discovered you need to arrange this and get a key and permit. We then moved on towards Melbourne and tried to find a site with this information gleaned from Birdline Victoria : <strong>Lewin's Rail</strong> seen from south platform, Mount St Joseph Pond, Altona, Melway Ref 54 C10 . We found Altona on our map, a western suburb of Melbourne, and headed there. as we arrived Nicky noticed a sign saying Mount St Joseph school, so we stopped. No obvious pond so we asked in a shop nearby if they knew of a pond, or a road called Melway. He told us that Melway was in fact a directory, but he didn't have one. So we went to a newsagents, found a Melway and found page 54, square 10. It was by the school, but straddled a railway line. We walkedalong the path on the north side of the railway line and came to a reed-fringed pond after c100m, with a viewing platform on the south side. We were soon joined by 2 other friendly local birdos, brought here by the gen, and luckily for us a fabulous <strong>Lewin's Rail </strong>appeared at the eastern edge of the pond before too long, a lifer for one of the locals too! A <strong>Latham's Snipe </strong>also put in an appearance.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday we booked our ferry crossing to Tassie, andwe'regoing...tonight! Shame there are only night crossings at the moment. So all's going ok except for the sad news that it looks like Halftwo won't be coming to Aus as planned.</p><p></p><p>1209 Long-billed Corella</p><p>1210 Gang-gang Cockatoo</p><p>1211 <strong>FLAME ROBIN</strong></p><p>1212 <strong>SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER</strong></p><p>1213 <strong>HOODED PLOVER</strong></p><p>1214 <strong>LEWIN'S RAIL</strong></p><p></p><p>If anyone's got any site gen for Cape Barren Goose, Blue-winged Parrot and Tawny-crowned Honeyeater on mainland Tasmania I'd greatly appreciate it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Sweetland, post: 1312095, member: 27337"] [b]Wombats and Koalas[/b] Before leaving South Australia we visited Piccaninni Pond and nearby Dry Creek where we had great views of 2 wombats in the evening at an active colony on the marked walk, amazing creatures. This area also produced the first non-feral [B]Long-billed Corellas[/B] we'd identified so far, and Piccaninni produced a geat view of a [B]Beautiful Firetail [/B]from bed in the morning. Other birds in these areas that we were more used to a few months ago included [B]Eastern Yellow Robin, Striated [/B]and [B]Brown Thornbills, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Yellow-faced Honeyeater[/B] and [B]Eastern Spinebill[/B]. We then headed for Little Desert NP in Victoria hoping for [B]Malleefowl[/B]. We had no luck wandering around, and the word "aviary" put us off the Whimpey's Lodge captive breeding program trip, though apparently these birds might be tickable as the fence was built around them rather than them being put within the fence! We did see a large mixed flock of c200 [B]White-browed [/B]and [B]Masked Woodswallows [/B]here though. We then passed through the Grampians, noting a few [B]Gang-gang Cockatoos[/B], a couple of [B]Bassian Thrushes[/B], and a surprise lifer in the form of 2 male [B]Flame Robins[/B] that put on a real interactive performance at a lookout called the balconies. We travelled fairly quickly along the Great Ocean Road after hitting the coast. A stop at the Loch Ard Cemetery was good for numbers of calling [B]Rufous Bristlebirds[/B], and we had great views of one of these skulkers. An Australian Crake was also seen at midday en route (Prince Town?) at a site that looked great for [B]bitterns[/B] if we had more time. We made it to Cape Otway that night. Massive numbers of [B]Short-tailed Shearwaters [/B]passed by in the evening and well into next day as we headed further east. A few [B]mollymawks[/B] were too distant to id. Cape Otway also produced [B]Satin Bowerbird [/B]and [B]Crescent Honeyeater[/B]. Big highlight here though was 3 Koala sightings, including a mother with a young one. Very cute. We picked up a goodie just south of Anglesea in the form of a smart [B]Hooded Plover[/B] after a walk of about 3km along the beach from below Urquart bluff. On the way into Melbourne we hoped to pop into Werribee western treatment plant, but discovered you need to arrange this and get a key and permit. We then moved on towards Melbourne and tried to find a site with this information gleaned from Birdline Victoria : [B]Lewin's Rail[/B] seen from south platform, Mount St Joseph Pond, Altona, Melway Ref 54 C10 . We found Altona on our map, a western suburb of Melbourne, and headed there. as we arrived Nicky noticed a sign saying Mount St Joseph school, so we stopped. No obvious pond so we asked in a shop nearby if they knew of a pond, or a road called Melway. He told us that Melway was in fact a directory, but he didn't have one. So we went to a newsagents, found a Melway and found page 54, square 10. It was by the school, but straddled a railway line. We walkedalong the path on the north side of the railway line and came to a reed-fringed pond after c100m, with a viewing platform on the south side. We were soon joined by 2 other friendly local birdos, brought here by the gen, and luckily for us a fabulous [B]Lewin's Rail [/B]appeared at the eastern edge of the pond before too long, a lifer for one of the locals too! A [B]Latham's Snipe [/B]also put in an appearance. Yesterday we booked our ferry crossing to Tassie, andwe'regoing...tonight! Shame there are only night crossings at the moment. So all's going ok except for the sad news that it looks like Halftwo won't be coming to Aus as planned. 1209 Long-billed Corella 1210 Gang-gang Cockatoo 1211 [B]FLAME ROBIN[/B] 1212 [B]SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER[/B] 1213 [B]HOODED PLOVER[/B] 1214 [B]LEWIN'S RAIL[/B] If anyone's got any site gen for Cape Barren Goose, Blue-winged Parrot and Tawny-crowned Honeyeater on mainland Tasmania I'd greatly appreciate it. [/QUOTE]
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