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Saturday 16 January 2010 - walk comment- White cheeked Honeyeaters etc

White-cheeked honeyeaters: 6 yes six together as a family! in dead tree sugarloaf point not far from rockpool.



Sacred Kingfishers: watched termite mound nest: both adult near nest and one adult visits nest maybe to feed young. looks like droppings on nest rim.

Firday 15 January - Sacred Kingfishers at nest

Sacred Kingfisher: saw SK at the nest twice this morning 7.00am and 9.00am - first coming out of the nest and flying off and then hanging on nest edge to lean in and presumably feed young. Also noticed nesting material near opening.

Fantail Cuckoo - near rockpool SugarLoaf Point area low in scrub just sitting silently studying the ground around from a low perch. good close look.

Lots of grey spider grevillia flowers coming out now.

Thurs 14-01-10 walk comments- Young Dollarbirds- RAINRAIN

Two young dollarbirds on Sugarloaf Point sitting together in feed me mode.
Lots of rain overnight so--
Rockpool overflowing
Paths had much water flowing on them creating leaf sculptures!!
Great walking the tracks getting very wet,
Wattle buds- quite a lot of wattle buds going to blossom soon.

Tuesday 12-01-10 walk comments

ROCKPOOL: watched four yes four white-cheeked honeyeaters together at the rockpool sampling the water -great stuff.
Channel-billed Cuckoos group of five flying around again calling loudly as usual.
Sacred kingfisher eating an insect on dead limb near the nest termite nest my end.

Walking notes Sunday 10 January 2010

7.00am
Quiet generally - I don't think I heard any currawongs at all!!! and few lorikeets and generally the bush felt very quiet and still.
I watched quite a few pardalottes around in various parts of the walk.
Noteable were a group of five yes five channel-billed cuckoos flying around calling loudly
Watched Eastern spinebill take a bath in the rock waterhole - great to see water there again after a long dry spell.
Young dusky moorhens with parents foraging.
Dollarbird
Sacred Kingfisher calling near nest area my end.
Otherwise usual things - heard whipbd; saw silvereyes in usual place.
Did listen and watch brown thornbills calling with a different call to my usual call I hear rather like white browed scrubwren calling

Tuesday 15-12-09 report

Sparrowhawk: not at nest - feels like they have abandoned the nest - very quiet around - just get that feeling.
Peewees- watched changeover and male feeding(?) hatchlings maybe certainly busy in nest.
Sacred Kingfisher near nest.
Dollarbirds up my end.
Fantail cuckoo SLP
No channelbills this morning no whipbird calls.
oh and the tortoise of course

first sunlight

Saturday 12-12-09

Sparrowhawk not at nest when I walked past and back later.
Peewee: watched peewee male with food in bill trying to feed chick (couldn't see chick)
Sacred Kingfisher: watched SK enter and disappear into nest hole in termite nest.
Just missed getting more pics of turtles near the rock FSC
Heard Horsfield's cuckoo Suger Loaf Point bush.
Silvereyes - watched them flying in wind the other day -- just like leaves being swept about in sky by the wind.

Friday 11-12-09 report fro walk

Sparrowhawk sitting at edge of nest cup and higher up suggesting maybe making room of hatchling(s). hopefully. Lots of curra wongs around - one was diving on the sparrowhawk the other day.
Whipbirds chasing each other around right next to me on track down to creek - watched it for some time - they were out in the open a lot not seeming to mind or notice me right there.Peewees- watched the change over at the nest.
Dollarbirds around Sugar Loaf Point.
Rufous fantail - immature - close to me watched for a while - interesting markings.
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike - immature just the black mark thru eye.
Sacred kingfishers mating - did I mention that before. then no sign of for the last few days.
Lorikeet nesting no sign of
Finches nest - no sign of.
Storm birds still racous calling of the four flying around over the last week.
The turtles this morning.
Photos of white orchids this morning - hard to get a good pic of this.

Turtles in Buffalo Creek Fri morn. 7.00am 11-12-09

Can you find this little turtle feeding under water on plants?

Wednesday 9 Dec 2009 6.30 am walking the 6 k

Collared sparrowhawk: sitting high in nest, wings seem spread alittle, looking around and down - maybe chick has hatched;
also note the bird on the nest is not in brooding mode seems obvious from body language

Sacred Kingfishers: my end: saw them mating this morning nearby their termits nest hole.

Peewees: still brooding
Cat: saw a domestic cat on boardwalk - must be cats about but this is the first time I have ever seen one in FOM

Lorikeets exploring termite nest above track two of them in the nest - this one was used as a nest by kookaburras before my end

Tues 8 Dec 2009

This morning 6.30 am on
keep seeing this little longneck tortoise I think it is in the creek.
Sparrowhawk - sitting higher up in nest looking around - question have we got hatchlings yet - maybeSaw a fox on Tuesday morn.
Peewees still brooding - amazingly different facial markings on peewees male and female
Sacred kingfishers: saw one near termite nest this morning where they had been burrowing into it; two others in clearing.
Finch: about four or five nests in the vicinity -no sign of them though.
Bush very very DRY

This morning Monday 7 Dec 2009

Sparrowhawk still brooding
Young Grey Butcherbird with parents in Buffalo Creek reserve
Heard Sacred kingfisher near nest site
no sign of firetail near nest or lorikeet
four storm bird still flying around
peewee still brooding

Squiggley-gum bark shedding time of year

FOM Walking track montage

Channel-billed cuckoos this morning plus other birds

Two channel-billed cuckoos this morning 6.10am one making unusual sound get food and feeds the other. Seen CBC around a lot over the last few weeks - up to four in a group.
Eastern rozellas this morning and yesterday.
Whipbird again on boardwalk area in plain view very close to me watched it calling - wide open bill.