Summer 2016/17

20th February 2017

Pound Lane NewsteadSacred Kingfisher, Rufous Night-heron (imm), White-faced Heron, White-necked Heron, Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, White-plumed Honeyeater, Fuscous Honeyeater, White-naped Honeyeater, Diamond Firetail, Brown Treecreeper, Dusky wood swallow, Welcome Swallow, White-browed Babbler, Magpie-lark, Red-rumped Parrot. Crimson Rosella, Eastern Rosella.

18th February 2017

Newstead township – Rainbow Lorikeets (~20).

17th February 2017

Green Gully (Plunkett’s Lane) – Rainbow Bee-eaters ~12, Jacky Winter, Eastern Yellow Robin, Restless Flycatcher, Wedge-tailed Eagle.

4th February 2017

Picnic PointLatham’s Snipe (3) flushed from shoreline.

31st December 2016

Joyce’s CreekLittle Button-quail (flushed from roadside native grassland remnant). This is my first local record.

28th December 2016

Wyndham Street NewsteadEastern Koel (sub-adult male). This is my first local record.

25th December 2016

Wyndham St Newstead – a large nightjar, presumably a White-throated Nightjar was seen hawking over the home garden at ~ 9pm.

18th December 2016

Walker’s Swamp – Latham’s Snipe (1), Pink-eared Duck, Blue-winged Shoveler

3rd December 2016

Walker’s Swamp – Brown Quail, Little Black Cormorant, Little Pied Cormorant, Darter, Blue-winged Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck, Black Duck, Grey Teal, Chestnut Teal, Australian Shelduck

Lignum Swamp – Swamp Harrier, Whiskered Tern, Black-winged Stilt, Pink-eared Duck, Black Duck, Grey Teal, Chestnut Teal, Australian Shelduck, Hoary-headed Grebe, Black Swan, Eurasian Coot, Little Grassbird, Australian Reed-warbler, Wedge-tailed Eagle