Field of Mars Wildlife Refuge: March 2009

Saturday, March 7, 2009

This spotted pardalote was a few feet away from me just above eye level -LOOKING AT ME!!

MY BIRDLIST SO FAR for FOM wetlorikeet@live.com.au

1	Australian Brush-turkey
2	Pacific Black Duck
3	Chestnut Teal
4	Pied Cormorant
5	Little Pied Cormorant
6	Little Black Cormorant
7	Australian Pelican
8	White-faced Heron
9	Striated Heron
10	Nankeen Night Heron
11	Australian White Ibis
12	Royal Spoonbill
13	Black-shouldered Kite
14	Grey Goshawk
15	Collared Sparrowhawk
16	Brown Goshawk?
17	Brown Falcon?
18	Peregrine Falcon
19	Dusky Moorhen
20	Purple Swamphen
21	Masked Lapwing
22	Silver Gull
23	White-Headed Pigeon
24	Wonga Pigeon
25	Spotted Turtle-Dove
26	Crested Pigeon
27	Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
28	Galah
29	Little Corella flock flying over
30	Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
31	Rainbow Lorikeet
32	Musk Lorikeet
33	Australian King-Parrot
34	Crimson Rosella
35	Eastern Rosella
36	Pallid Cuckoo
37	Fan-tailed Cuckoo
38	Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo
39	Common Koel
40	Channel-billed Cuckoo
41	Powerful Owl
42	Southern BooBook Owl
43	Tawny Frogmouth
44	White-throated needletail
45	Azure Kingfisher
46	Laughing Kookaburra
47	Sacred Kingfisher
48	Dollarbird
49	White-throated Treecreeper
50	Superb Fairy-wren
51	Variegated Fairy-wren
52	Spotted Pardalote
53	White-browed Scrubwren
54	Brown Gerygone
55	Brown Thornbill
56	Yellow Thornbill
57	Red Wattlebird
58	Little Wattlebird
59	Noisy Miner
60	Yellow-faced Honeyeater
61	New Holland Honeyeater
62	White-cheeked Honeyeater
63	Eastern Spinebill
64	Scarlet Honeyeater
65	Rose Robin
66	Eastern Yellow Robin
67	Golden Whistler
68	Rufous Whistler
69	Grey Shrike Thrush
70	Black-faced Monarch
71	Leaden Flycatcher
72	Eastern Whipbird
73	Magpie-Lark
74	Willie Wagtail
75	Grey Fantail
76	Rufous Fantail
77	Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
78	Olive-backed Oriole
79	Grey Butcherbird
80	Australian Magpie
81	Pied Currawong
82	Spangled Drongo
83	Australian Raven
84	Satin Bowerbird
85	Red-browed Finch
86	Welcome Swallow
87	Fairy Martin
88	Red-whiskered Bulbul
89	Red-browed Finch
90	Silvereye

Other Sightings

Cicadabird, Black Bitten- Mon. 24-5-2004, White-throated Gerygone, Leaden Flycatcher - Simon Hayes, Sun. 24-10-2004, Birding-Aus.
Satin Bowerbird plus bower; Grey Fantail, Lewins Honeyeater, Cuckoo (shining or Horsfield) - Max, Fri. 18 July, 2008, Birding-Aus

7-3-2009: Black-faced Monarch, Australian Figbird, Brown Goshawk, Olive-backed Oriole, Satin Flycatcher Field of Mars Wildlife Reserve, East RydeBlack-faced Monarch: 1 observed on the edge of the grassy area, NE of the bridge. Most likely the same bird seen over the past 2 weeks. Australian Figbird: 1 perched at the top of a large dead tree next to the gassy area in the SW section, positively identified by call. Brown Goshawk: 1 immature bird and 1 adult female, flying around and calling. At one point the young bird had 4 cockatoos and 4 currawongs chasing him around. Olive-backed Oriole: 1 female. Satin Flycatcher: 1 observed on the edge of the grassy area, NE of the bridge. Passage migrant.Max Breckenridge 7/3 #8321

Field of Mars Wildlife Refuge

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Spotted Pardalote this morning

Sunday, March 1, 2009

First day of autumn 2009 -from walk this morning