This last Orange-bellied parrot (OBP) walk for the year started in similar cold and windy conditions to the two winter walks, however we appreciated the fact that it didn’t rain this time. A total of 45 birds were identified.
Where are those OBP’s?
There were still large areas of water, so there were scores of ducks and other water birds. Of most interest was a clear sighting of some very handsome, long-legged, Black-backed Stilts, and a Royal Spoonbill which landed very near us.
Royal Spoonbill
We did our best to flush out parrots from the paddock where lots of Blue-winged parrots had been seen in May, but didn’t but see one parrot there, so there was certainly no chance of seeing an OBP.
Maybe we can flush them out
Australian Reed Warblers lived up to their previous name of ‘clamorous’ with a wonderful spring chorus in the tall reeds. There were several raptors patrolling the water, and a pair of Swamp Harriers put on a splendid display for us.
Where are those OBP’s?
Below are all the birds identified on this walk:
- Black Swan
- Australian Shelduck
- Grey Teal
- Chestnut Teal
- Pacific Black Duck
- Hardhead
- Australasian Grebe
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Black Cormorant
- Great Cormorant
- Australian Pelican
- Eastern Great Egret
- Cattle Egret
- White-faced Heron
- Australian White Ibis
- Straw-necked Ibis
- Royal Spoonbill
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Whistling Kite
- Swamp Harrier
- Brown Falcon
- Purple Swamphen
- Black-winged Stilt
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Masked Lapwing
- Eastern Rosella
- Red-rumped Parrot
- Horsefield’s Bronze-Cuckoo
- Superb Fairy-wren
- Striated Fieldwren
- White-plumed Honeyeater
- Noisy Miner
- White-fronted Chat
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Australian Magpie
- Willy Wagtail
- Little Raven
- Magpie-lark
- Golden-headed Cisticola
- Australian Reed-Warbler
- Little Grassbird
- Welcome Swallow
- Tree Martin
- Common Starling
- European Goldfinch