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The Golden Whistler The Golden Whistler Volume 7 Number 9 & 10 November 2018 PRESIDENT'S REPORT NEXT OUTING CAMP WEEKEND What a busy and rewarding September we have DATE: November 24th & 25th remember that November th had. 24 is polling day for the Victorian State Election A small cohort of 10 members gathered at Pallister’s MEET: 8:45am for 9am departure Saturday morning at the river car park/playground between the highway Reserve on the 22nd for what proved to be a lovely bridge and the Visitor Centre at Nelson days outing. It was a new destination for me. ACCOMMODATION: Kywong Caravan Park, Nelson. We walked several kilometres around one of the Please book your own site or cabin at Kywong Caravan walks to constant bird song. The birds were hard to Park, 92 North Nelson Rd, Nelson, (08) 8738 4174, see and our listening skills were put to the test as [email protected] we tried to identify the calls. We thought we heard VENUE: Port Macdonnell & Nelson a Painted Honeyeater at one point but could not find it. EVENING MEAL FRIDAY: Evening get together at the Camp Kitchen, Kywong Several Wedge-tail Eagles circled overhead, one a juvenile. When we returned to the ‘clubhouse’ for EVENING MEAL SATURDAY: Peter is going to book a table but needs to know who is coming ASAP 03 5572 lunch we were delighted when Yellow-faced, White- 3413 or [email protected] eared, White-naped and New Holland Honeyeaters all coming in for drink at the rainwater tank. A BRING: if you have a telescope please bring it along to Pardalote came very close while Red-browed help with shore bird identification Finches and European Goldfinches foraged on the CONTACT: Peter Humphries 03 5572 3413 ground. Julia and Richard know the area well so we were BIRDLIFE HAMILTON CHRISTMAS LUNCH fortunate to have them guide us. As we chatted DATE: Saturday 15 December 2018 after lunch Adam arrived with thousands of native plants ready for a tree planting bee next day. The TIME: 12 noon reserve is in good hands. LOCATION: Catalpa Cafe, Tarrington The following weekend members were off to Little RSVP: Sally Purnell by 10/12/18 Desert Nature Lodge for BirdLife Nhill's Cross Border ACTIONS: Set activities calendar for 2019 Camp out weekend. See report on next page. Outings will be cancelled on days of The Newsletter was off on annual leave at the end Total Fire Ban, Extreme Heat and of September, so no newsletter for October but other Hazardous Weather condition double issue in November. Hope you had a great holiday Sam, we look forward to some good bird stories on your return. CONTENTS: Charlotte Davis 2. Pallisters Reserve & Cross Border Camp 3. Rocklands & Black Range 4. Sightings 5. Birding Activities & Quiz 6.Birds on Farms Victoria BirdLife Hamilton monthly newsletter, Editor Samantha Greiner 0428 395 773 Outing Reports September & Nhill Cross Border Camp PALLISTERS RESERVE BIRDLIFE NHILL CROSS BORDER CAMPOUT We had a very pleasant walk at Pallisters Reserve on We were very well represented at the Cross Border the 22nd of September with 8 people attending. Campout at the Little Desert Lodge. Sixteen of our Pallisters Reserve is a Trust for Nature owned 250ha members attended and we enjoyed a very well wetland and woodland property west of Orford and planned and executed range of activities. There were approximately ½ hour north of Port Fairy. 60+ attendees which were divided into four groups, who were guided to four different venues over two After following the welcome balloons and meeting at day, so we all got to visit each one as a separate the ‘club house’ for a cup of tea, we headed out past a small group. small water filled wetland, hearing and seeing several species of honeyeaters at a magnificent Silver Banksia. We were treated to a meal on Saturday night We followed the farm track across the old paddocks provided by the Luv-a-duck business and salads which are being restored back to wetland ecosystems, provided by the Nhill members. This was much aiming for the ‘Hocking Block’ of woodland. appreciated after tiring days of birding. We heard all about the Luv-a-duck business and what it means to A juvenile Wedge-tail Eagle was being harassed by two the Nhill district, inspiring us to look out for some magpies at a distance, and later an adult was duck meals in the future observed. After pausing to see the pig trap and listen to White-eared Honeyeaters and pardelotes in an old Manna Gum on the track, we disturbed 2 Pacific Black Duck on an old dam. We followed the track north and east which lead us through the Eucalyptus woodland back to the beginning of the Reserve. The Club house was a welcome sight, and people had lunch on the veranda before they went their own way to see other reserves, birding sites or home. Julia Schlapp . Sunday night was a feast provided by the Little Desert Nature Lodge. With a guest speaker Simon Verdon, PhD student at La Trobe University, who is working on studying the effect of fire on the Mallee Emu-wren. His work is helping reduce its decline and changing fuel reduction burns to patterns that benefits the Emu-wren, rather than annihilating it. Birding highlight for me were the Black Honeyeaters in the bush block at Glenlee. They were a new tick for me and were fascinating to watch as they flitted about and called to each other. Malleefowl were hard to find, but some were lucky. Some of the mounds Wedge-tailed Eagle © A Carmichael are obviously being worked. The total bird species seen for the weekend was around 120. BIRD LIST FOR DAYS ACTIVITIES Charlotte Davis Black Swan Yellow-faced Honeyeater Australian Shelduck White-eared Honeyeater Australian Wood Duck Red Wattlebird Pacific Black Duck White-naped Honeyeater Rock Dove Rufous Whistler Wedge-tailed Eagle Grey Shrike-thrush Galah Australian Magpie Crimson Rosella Pied Currawong Eastern Rosella Little Raven Superb Fairy-wren Silvereye White-browed Scrubwren Welcome Swallow Spotted Pardalote Red-browed Finch Striated Pardalote European Goldfinch Total species 26 Splendid Fairy-wren Casuarina Camp, Wyperfeld NP © S Greiner 2 November 2018 Outing Report October ROCKLAND RESERVOIR & BLACK RANGE Saturday, the 27th of October saw around fourteen people gather at the Apex Park in Balmoral. It was a chilly morning, and one car load of early birders managed to get there in time to discover, and sample, a brand new coffee shop in the town. Highly recommended! Our first stop for the day was en route from Balmoral to Rocklands, in the hope of once again seeing the resident Owlet Nightjar. Sadly, someone must have warned the target bird that Dot was in the group this time, so it stayed well and truly hidden! However, the group did see their first Scarlet Robin of the day here, along with a few other woodland birds, so it was still Jean Humphries & Ron Miller atop Mudadgadjiin Cave well worth the stop. © C Davis Morning tea (with 'snickerdoodles' provided by the usual suspect) was at Mountain Dam on Rocklands BIRD LIST FOR DAYS ACTIVITIES Reservoir. With tea and cookies consumed, several people wandered off in search of birds and/or 'the Australasian Darter Spotted Pardalote facilities'. Those who stayed behind at the picnic table Whistling Kite Striated Pardalote Wedge-tailed Eagle Eastern Spinebill were alerted to the presence of a less-than-welcome Nankeen Kestrel Yellow-faced Honeyeater visitor by some very upset White-browed Scrubwrens - Brown Falcon White-eared Honeyeater a metre-long Tiger Snake. To the relief of both Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Fuscous Honeyeater scrubbies and humans, it soon disappeared into the Long-billed Corella White-plumed Honeyeater dense shrubs. Avian highlights at Mountain Dam Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Red Wattlebird included a Sacred Kingfisher, several Blue-winged Musk Lorikeet New Holland Honeyeater Parrots, and for a lucky few, some Varied Sittellas. Eastern Rosella Brown-headed Honeyeater From Mountain Dam we drove on up into the Black Red-rumped Parrot White-naped Honeyeater Range, where our first stop was marked by some very Blue-winged Parrot White-browed Babbler Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo Varied Sittella beautiful orchids, but not much in the way of birdlife. Pallid Cuckoo Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Next stop was Mudadgadjiin picnic area, where we had Fan-tailed Cuckoo White-winged Triller lunch. The first thing we heard on our arrival (even Laughing Kookaburra Golden Whistler before leaving the cars!) was the trilling call of a Fan- Sacred Kingfisher Rufous Whistler tailed Cuckoo. It took a while before someone White-throated Treecreeper Grey Shrike-thrush managed to find the bird to go with the call, but once Brown Treecreeper Australian Magpie discovered, it was seen repeatedly, and was still Superb Fairy-wren Pied Currawong calling when we headed off an hour or two later. Other White-browed Scrubwren Grey Currawong highlights at Mudadgadjiin were Horsfield's Bronze- Speckled Warbler Grey Fantail Weebill Forest Raven cuckoo, and Speckled Warblers. Striated Thornbill Jacky Winter The group broke up after lunch, and people headed Buff-rumped Thornbill Scarlet Robin home (or back to their campground!) by various Brown Thornbill Tree Martin different routes. One little group of die-hards kept Total species 52 going through the Black Range to the Henty Hwy, and made one last stop at a layby south of Cherrypool. Here we were entertained by a dozen or more Dusky Woodswallows busily feeding on bugs in the grass or by swooping right over our heads and catching the insects we disturbed by walking through the grass! We also got to watch a Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike being firmly herded away from a particular tree by what was likely a pair of Fuscous Honeyeaters.
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