Sightings

Sightings anywhere within a 250 km radius of Toowoomba, but excluding the local survey area (see above), for the period 1 Jun 2013 - 31 Aug 2013.
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Mick Atzeni
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Sightings

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New members Ross & Margie Easton sent me these sightings recently.
23/07/2013

Weather cold with showers.

Warra early am. Crows, Magpies, peewees, crested pigeons, galahs, noisy miners, currawongs and flocks of straw necked ibis..

Around Chinchilla as above plus white face heron, lorikeets, cokatiels, red winged parrots, apostle birds, sulphur crested cockatoos.

Gil Weir south of Miles, mid afternoon to sunset, Grey teals, chestnut teals, pacific black ducks, wood ducks, dusky moorhen, pelicans, pied cormorant, whistling kite, galahs, corellas, sulphur crested cockatoos, pale headed rosellas, rainbow lorikeets, shining bronze cuckoo, common bronze wing, fantail cuckoo, magpies, peewees, crows, grey backed butcherbird, crested pigeon, apostle birds, grey headed babblers, willie wagtail, grey fantail, red backed fairy wren, yellow thornbill, striated pardalote, blue faced honeyeater, brown honeyeater, striped honeyeater, noisy friarbird, rufous whistler, welcome swallow and the good old kookaburra. Nothing extraordinary but still a really enjoyable day for us.

We also noted a big decrease in the number of black kites circling above Oakey.
Thanks Ross & Margie.

Mick
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