My Moving Patch

Do you keep a monthly record for your favourite patch? If so, why not share the info real-time and literally put your patch on the map? Using the template under this heading you have the vehicle for displaying your monthly records for those places you bird regularly e.g. your backyard, neighbourhood, local park. Just how good is your patch? What can we learn from your monthly records?

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Michael Wood
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My Moving Patch

Post by Michael Wood »

Hello All

Unfortunately, it pains me to say that visits to reserves have been few are far between recently due to a lack of transport. Yesterday, however, I did manage to spend a short time birding around a cemetery at Smithfield, near Gawler, South Australia. Although it was quite a cold day, and despite the nature of the location –surrounded by farmland and housing, it has turned up a few interesting bird species on the only two visits made there, one yesterday (5/7/2009) and another in late May.

Little Pied Cormorant
Australasian Grebe
Pacific Black Duck/Mallard
Australian Wood Duck
Black-tailed Native-Hen (3)
Dusky Moorhen
Purple Swamphen
Eurasian Coot
White-faced Heron
Spotted Dove
Common Bronzewing (2)
Crested Pigeon
Black-shouldered Kite
Collared Sparrowhawk
Musk Lorikeet
Crimson (Adelaide) Rosella
Red-rumped Parrot
Red Wattlebird
Singing Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Golden Whistler
Rufous Whistler
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Magpie-lark
Australian Magpie
Little Raven
Welcome Swallow
Skylark
House Sparrow
European Goldfinch
Common Starling
Common Blackbird
Michael Wood
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