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Birds South East Birds South East Number 72 February 2015 Golden-headed Cisticola common in the open grassy wetlands and fringing sedges at Wandilo Best birds for this year's effort include Baillon's Wandilo Pasture Strip crake, Striated Fieldwren and lots of Golden-headed cisticola's. monitoring continues By Bryan Haywood Another year of monitoring birds at the Wandilo 'Pasture Strip' went ahead last November with an enthusiastic bunch of birdo's from all round the South East participating. They came from far and wide to participate and the results although early on in the restoration phase were still treated with some great birds. Wetlands, areas of paddock grass, Contents scattered remnant trees and revegetation areas were all surveyed for 20min over a 2 hectare area 1. Wandilo Pasture Strip monitoring continues in 8 locations throughout the 400ha site. 2. Rainbow Report #31 Restoration began back in 2011 with amazing 2. Long Swamp Bird Monitoring opportunistic observations of five Painted Snipe back in 2011, and White-bellied Cuckoo-shrikes in 3. Wader News 2013, Brolga's have nested at the site since the 5. Nature’s Notes cows were removed in 2009, 2010 and again in 2014. Although by the time our surveys were 6. Barking Owls scheduled last November the Brolga family had 8. Calendar of Events and Contacts already moved on from their nursery wetland as all wetlands were nearly dry. 9. Sightings from November 2014 to January 2015 Birds South East RAINBOW REPORT # 31 After just ten days at home, the pneumonia relapsed and it was another ambulance, this time Bird wise, 2014 has been a forgettable year. The to Horsham for a week. I am now promoted to annual list has only a few over 100 on it and I outpatient which, I gather, means they can all have not been able to get away. Trapped in monster me at will. Rainbow because of the need for weekly and sometimes twice weekly blood tests for warfarin I have been birding locally a couple of times that started in December last year and should since getting back home only to find that my have ceased by April or, at the latest, May this walking (skulking?) range has been halved to year. But they went on under an incompetent about 50 yards and I can only remain on my feet doctor until late August when the annual visit to for about five minutes at a time. The doctor and the cardiologist led to the equivalent of a small specialist are trying to rehash my pain killing bomb landing in the local medical practice when medication and both are amazed at how much the cardiologist voiced his opinion of their mal morphine or its derivatives I can absorb without practice. Two thirds of the year wasted, but at any apparent effect. Apparently this is not all least the warfarin stopped. that uncommon, but it does make the prescription of pain killers more difficult as the The cardiologist’s outburst led to other main option, a morphine derivative, is almost appointments in Ballarat with a physician who ruled out. was equally scathing of the local doctors, but put it more diplomatically then the cardiologist. It Bill the dog has done his last bird watching and was the end of September by the time all this claims to have over 500 ticks, but I don’t believe brue-ha-has cooled off and Bill, the now aging him and I think he’s only about half a dozen dog and I got away in the caravan. First stop ground birds and several snakes. Just this year Barham, NSW, for the regulation Ostrich and a he has aged a lot and can no longer jump up into short list including, sadly, a road killed Barn Owl. the Nissan. I can’t bend down to lift him and Two nights later at Paringa I developed huge anyway he doesn’t like that. He has now chest pains which were not angina and in the assumed the rank of Birdwatcher Grade 1, morning had to call an ambulance to Berri (Ret’d). Hospital. After a careful and thorough By John Berggy examination, the visiting doctor astutely diagnosed chest pains. Well derr. By this time I Rainbow, 26 November 2014 could hardly breathe and was on oxygen and next morning the diagnosis had become pneumonia and I was flown to Adelaide. I was barely installed in the ER ward when this doctorish looking bloke turned up and without LONG SWAMP BIRD MONITORING introductions or any other preliminaries, started talking birds. I must have looked startled because he paused and said “You are John Just a quick update on the results so far for Long Berggy, aren’t you?” When I nodded assent he Swamp bird monitoring using sound recording went on about birds. He turned out to be one of devices. Three volunteers have taken up the task the registrars on my specialist team, but how he of listening to sounds recorded over the Sept-Nov knew I was a bird watcher remained a mystery, period 2014 from five locations throughout the but having lived in Adelaide for 15 years I knew Long Swamp wetland complex. Sites include the most of the locations he talked about and even Glenelg River Estuary, White Sands area, Nobles got a word in edgewise advising him to take up Rocks (two sites) and one north of Lake an offered posting to Broome. That should be far Mombeong. enough away. Recording devices (Olympus) were left out in the I had been admitted to Berri hospital on 3 bush with an external microphone to record at October and did not get back to Paringa until 26 dawn and dusk in the hope of hearing various October and in slightly shaky condition drove target bird species. home a couple of days later. So much for the bird trip to Eyre Peninsula and with it the prospect of finding the recently split Western Grasswren. 2 Newsletter Headine Birds South East WADER NOTES On the 20th December Jeff and Sarah Campbell discovered 3 pairs of small terns back at Danger Point. Their observations: On 20 December 2014 two pairs of Little Tern and one mixed Fairy and Little Tern pair were found breeding at Danger Point near Port MacDonnell. All nests contained eggs, one and two in the case of the Littles and three in the case of the mixed pair. A temporary rope and garden stake fence was erected around the loose colony and signs asking people to take care were put up. On 26 December we visited the site and found that all the nests had been washed away and the fence that was partly down was removed. Only one Little Tern was seen in the area. On 18 January 2015 a mixed Little and Fairy Tern nest was found containing two eggs. A little Tern sitting on two eggs was located but the partner was not seen and another mixed pair was making scrapes for a nest site. The nesting area, which Bob Green also contained two Red-capped Plover nests, each with two eggs, was again fenced. Results are indicating that it is easy to detect species of regional significance including the Unfortunately on 24 January we again found that Southern Emu-wren, Rufous Bristlebird and Olive all of the nests had been washed away and the Whistler, however currently no detections of the fence was, once again, removed. Australasian Bittern or Ground Parrot can be On 29 January at least five Fairy and one Little confirmed. The monitoring program set up Tern were present at Danger Point and one pair through a Coastcare Victorian Community Grant of Fairy Tern was sitting on a nest containing one is aimed at assisting our understanding of egg. The other pairs, one of mixed species, were changes in the wetland complex as hydrological exchanging fish. A temporary fence was again restoration continues. erected around the site. Other species of interest heard on the recordings We can only hope that on this occasion there include the migratory Latham's Snipe, Brolga and may be some success with this breeding event. – Blue-winged Parrot. Jeff and Sarah Campbell. If you’d like to know more about this restoration project please refer to following Nature Glenelg Trust webpage; http://natureglenelg.org.au/current- projects/long-swamp-fish-study/ Thanks to Bob Green and Jeff Davies for assistance with designing this monitoring program and/or offering field expertise on Ground Parrot habitat. By Bryan Haywood Senior Ecologist Nature Glenelg Trust Maureen Christie Month 2012 3 Birds South East Hooded Plover numbers have been a real puzzle 11 am Equipment maintenance; noon Barbecue this year. Numbers for the November count were ($5.00/head to cover costs), Please bring a plate the lowest that I can remember. But there is of salad or dessert if you can. good news – the pair at Long Beach, Robe, 2 pm Meeting. Subscriptions can be paid on the fledged a chick before Christmas, then lost a day. RSVP to Jeff and Sarah (for catering) - clutch, and are now sitting on their third clutch of [email protected] the season. Keep track of their progress on their facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/robeneighbourhoodie SHOREBIRDS 2020: Feb: Sun 22nd February. Counting various sites along the lower SE coast A pair at Piccaninnie Ponds has fledged 2 chicks. and selected inland sites. If you would like to be The pair at Beachport has 2 fledged chicks. Last involved please contact our either Jeff or me.
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