Fine but windy – still we saw 31 bird species as the resident birds started to dominate over the departing migrant species.
Ornithologist lecturer from Federation University, Grant Palmer, led seven of us, with the numbers bolstered by a keen family of four – Gary Featherston's son, wife and two young daughters.
Best views were of fantails and LBBs like thornbills and scrub wrens. A butcherbird topped a bare stag branch in the middle section usually dominated by noisy miners. None were sighted, nor were the eastern rosellas, galahs and only a few crimsons.
Gorse has overwhelmed the west bank of the dam, so Gary and I had to clear a pathway through in the days prior.
Grant has provided a fuller report, which you can read in the Monitoring menu – visit Bird surveys at ImLal
Ornithologist lecturer from Federation University, Grant Palmer, led seven of us, with the numbers bolstered by a keen family of four – Gary Featherston's son, wife and two young daughters.
Best views were of fantails and LBBs like thornbills and scrub wrens. A butcherbird topped a bare stag branch in the middle section usually dominated by noisy miners. None were sighted, nor were the eastern rosellas, galahs and only a few crimsons.
Gorse has overwhelmed the west bank of the dam, so Gary and I had to clear a pathway through in the days prior.
Grant has provided a fuller report, which you can read in the Monitoring menu – visit Bird surveys at ImLal
