Birds We've Spotted & Pale Knotweed (Persicaria sp.)

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A list of birds we've spotted on the block since June 2003, including what we think was a Plains Wanderer! (example picture left)

We count from the time we turn onto our road - Colensopark Road, so not all the birds are on the 40 hectares, but they are all local, riverine birds. At this time (July 20th 2008) we think we have sighted or heard 75 birds. It is that Hooded Robin we are most unsure of!

Australian Darter

Australian Hobby (Russ confirmed two October 2nd 2004)

Australian Kestrel (Nankeen)

Australian Raven

Azure Kingfisher

Black Duck

Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike

Black Faced Woodswallow (Russ saw it on 4th March'05 just into Gordon Farrant's place)

Black Shouldered Kite

Brown Songlark (Skylark)

Black Swan

Brown TreeCreeper (confirmed March 20 '04; reconfirmed October 2nd '04. A bit rare)

Boobook Owl (mopoke; heard many times; saw spotlighting with Diana and Hugh 29/12/07)

Bronzewing Pigeon

Brown Falcon

Magpie Lark

Chestnut Rumped Thornbill (did it have white eye?)

Crested Pigeon

Eastern Rosella

Emu (swam across river, March 05; and many other sightings)

Galah

Golden Whistler

Great Cormorant (Large black)

Grey Crowned Babbler

Grey Fantail

Grey Teal

Hooded Robin (uncommon; top of lignum on river side of levee 29/12/07)

Jacky Winter

Kookaburra

Little Eagle (sitting on a dead rabbit, ColensoPark Road, December 24th 2007)

Little Friar Bird (or it could be a noisy friar bird?)

Long Billed Corella

Masked Plover

Mistletoe Bird

Mountain Duck

Noisy Miner

Pacific Heron (on channel, March '04)

Peaceful Dove (Russ saw it at Easter on the bridge in ColensoPark Road, 10/04/04)

Pelican (bones on block at purchase; on bend 6th October 2006; 11 or more on bend Dec 2007)

Peregrine Falcon (three on the second bend downstream October 2004)

Pied Butcher Bird

Pied Currawong

Plains Wanderer (Bird 70! Very rare; on the river side near camp. Dec 21st 2005)

Rainbow BeeEater (on the sandhill on the way down ColensoPark Road)

Red Rumped Parrot

Restless Flycatcher

Richards' Pipit

Rufous Fantail (black box trees near river; 16th April '05)

Rufous Whistler (male)

Sacred Kingfisher

Small Pied Cormorant

Southern Whiteface (Russ saw it in a walk in Farrants before Easter 04)

Spotted Harrier (Rare, sitting on stump in paddock along ColensoPark Road March 07)

Striated Pardolate

Strawnecked Ibis

Tawny Frogmouth (heard them a couple of times "ooooommm oooooom")

Wedge Tailed Eagle (along Barbers Creek, March '04; in tree downstream of camp March '05)

Welcome Swallow

Whistling Kite

White Cockatoo

White Faced Heron (lives just upstream of Cartwheel)

White Fronted Chat (22/2/05. Stephen saw on Farrants fence, along ColensoPark Road; near our block)

White Plumed Honey Eater

White Throated TreeCreeper

White Winged Chough

Willie Wagtail

Wood Duck

Yellow Rosella

Yellow Rumped Thornbill

Yellow Spoonbill

Zebra Finch

Black Tailed Native Hen (October 2009, along ColensoPark Road)

Crested Shrike Tit (October 2009, on Scott's place)

White Breasted Sea Eagle (Oct 4 2008, just flying through the bend, being chased by magpies))

Unconfirmed but suspicious

• Russ pursued a bird and didn't know whether it was a Hooded Robin or Jacky Winter April 04. Hooded Robins are in the area but a little rare. They like sparse lignum like ours.
• Stephen may have seen a juvenile White Winged Triller in lignum in Gordon's (Feb 05)
• Stephen may have heard a Barking Owl at night (Feb 05)
• Russell might have heard an Owlet Nightjar (Jan 05)