| Wed 18 | | White-headed Petrel.
Long Reef Aquatic Reserve |
| Highlight of a sea watch from Long Reef this afternoon was a White-headed Petrel flying north with the southerly gale there were also 5 Shy Albatross and 3 Black-browed Albatross. |
| Michael Ronan 18/12 #272016 |
| Mon 16 |  | Lesser Frigatebird
Munmorah State Conservation Area |
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| Continuing juvenile bird first seen late Sunday (15th) Observed flying high in the foggy conditions this morning. Emerged briefly to steal a piece of fish off some Silver Gull who had stolen the fish off some fisherman. |
| Daniel McKeon 17/12 #272013 |
| Sun 15 | | Lesser Frigatebird
Snapper Point, Munmorah National Park |
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| Immature male bird. (Moderator's Note: 2nd Central Coast LGA record, previously recorded in January 2012 when a single bird was seen first at The Entrance and then at Soldiers Point. AKM). eBird checklist |
| Zee Merven 16/12 #272012 |
| | Grey Plover
Dee Why Lagoon |
| A winter plumage bird appeared on the spit at the southern end of the lagoon. It helpfully flashed it black axilliaries when flushed by an Osprey. It aapears to be the first Sydney eBird record for two years. eBird checklist |
| Mike Kilburn 15/12 #272010 |
| | Grey Plover
Dee Why Lagoon |
| Single Grey Plover first reported by Mike Kilburn in morning. The bird was still present to at least 4:30pm. Fairly mobile on the various areas of exposed mud/sand but observed by me in the late afternoon on the mud flats on the western side close to the water. |
| Tom Wilson 15/12 #272009 |
| Sat 14 | | Pale headed Rosella
Shortland Waters Golf Club |
| Single bird sited ground foraging in Backyard about 1km from Golf Club. |
| Christopher Lamb 14/12 #272007 |
| Fri 13 | | Bush Stone Curlew
"Jacana" Washpool Rd Clarenza 2460 |
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| First sighting of a Bush Stone Curlew here in our 46 years of residence |
| Eric Wheeler and Matthew Wheeler 13/12 #272006 |
| | Bush Stone-curlew
Gostwyck, near Gostwyck Chapel, Uralla |
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| Moderator's Note: A very rare bird in the New England Tablelands these days. AKM. |
| Paul Rossington 13/12 #272004 |
| Thu 12 | | Sooty Owl
Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens |
| Melaleuca Grove. Sooty Owl was well-hidden in top of a Bangalow Palm. |
| Eric Wheeler and Matthew Wheeler 13/12 #272005 |
| Wed 11 | | Leaden Flycatcher
North Richmond |
| Enjoying our birdbath |
| David Potter 11/12 #272000 |
| Tue 10 | | Common Koel
Pinecliffe, 10kms SW of Molong |
| My first record here. Sighted this morning (male / black) and just verified with the call indistinguishable from Youtube.
Clearly at least two here, in that the one I observed at 7am was in a 'duet' with at least one other. |
| Bruce Tinsey 10/12 #271998 |
| | Superb Fairy Wren
Crawford Rd, Cooranbong |
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| Found a male Superb Fairy-Wren wrapped up in a spider's web over our driveway when I came back from work this morning. It had been bound in silk so I snapped some photos on my phone that hopefully show it. I'll check tonight to see what sort of spider she is but I've never heard of local spiders catching such a large prey before. |
| Paul Schofield 10/12 #271994 |
| Sun 8 | | Black-necked Stork
W Portland Rd, Sackville |
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| A single male Black-necked Stork seen late morning/early afternoon at the first roadside swamp west side of the road about 2 km north of Bull Ridge Rd. The bird was observed by a small group of Hawkesbury Environment Network birders after our last bird walk of the year at nearby Cumberland Reach. First spotted by Matilda Julian and Robin Marriott driving past, I rushed back to confirm and photograph the bird. It was patrolling the open swamp and catching eels in the shallows. Not present at 715am, first seen 1100 and again at 12.05. Other observers saw the bird later in the afternoon. Last eBird records in the Hawkesbury (and Sydney) seem to have been in the early 1970s .
This is private property so the bird should be viewed from the roadside verge. eBird checklist |
| Eric Finley 9/12 #271990 |
| | Beach Stone-curlew
Long Reef Aquatic Reserve |
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| 12.30 foraging on beach amongst the seaweed |
| Celine Khaw 8/12 #271988 |
| | Terek Sandpiper; Common Sandpiper
Woolooware Bay Shared Pathway and Viewing Facility katform |
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| 1 Terek and 1 Common in with 41 Grey-tailed Tattlers at high tide seen on rocks to left of platform |
| Tom Wilson 8/12 #271984 |
| Sat 7 | | Black-tailed Native-hen
Pitt Town Lagoon. |
| There was a Black-tailed Native-Hen presant at Pitt Town Lagoon this morning the bird was seen on the far western side of the Lagoon just to the south of the bird hide. |
| Michael Ronan 7/12 #271982 |
| Fri 6 | | Great Crested Grebe
Dangar's Lagoon, Uralla |
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| A pair of Great Crested Grebes at Dangar's Lagoon. They have not been previously reported on eBiird so thought worth a mention. eBird checklist |
| Chris Gregory 6/12 #271980 |
| Wed 4 | | Black-faced Cuckooshrike, Little Grassbird
Lord Howe Island |
| Adult BFCS seen at SW end of the airstrip. Rare visitor to the island.
Little Grassbirds have bred again at Soldiers Creek for the second year in a row. About a month ago I observed an adult pair carrying food to a nest in creekside melaleuca where I could hear begging chicks. Unsure if the nest was successful as I didn't get time to revisit in the weeks following, but there are still minimum 3 birds present in the area. |
| Liam Murphy 10/12 #271999 |
| | Terek Sandpiper
Shoalhaven Heads Inlet |
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| Continuing bird.
Details on checklist. 4 others observed the Terek Sandpiper this morning before I got there.
Simon Rees and I were out there together from about 1:10pm on high to outgoing tide. Digiscoped ID shots added. Simon has better images.
An immature/juvenile White-winged Black Tern was also observed with Little, Crested and Caspian Tern. eBird checklist |
| Carla Jackett, Simon Rees 4/12 #271979 |
| | Terek Sandpiper, Grey tailed Tattler, Australian Tern
Shoalhaven Heads |
| Observed 1 Terek Sandpiper, 4 Grey tailed Tattler, 273 Bar-tailed Godwit, 83 Far Eastern Curlew, 4 Great Knot plus assortment of usual waders. 1 Australian Tern plus approx 80 Little Terns. |
| Brian Deans, Terrill Nordstrom, David Rower 4/12 #271978 |
| Mon 2 | | Mangrove Honeyeaters (x3)
South West Rocks |
| Had 3 birds feeding and displaying courtship chasing though the mangroves in Boyters lane along the hide walk mangroves. (Moderator's Note: South West Rocks is the known southern limit for the Mangrove Honeyeater in NSW. This is the first published report that I have seen for 2024.AKM) |
| Joe Deluca 3/12 #271974 |
| Sun 1 | | Latham's snipe
Larool road, Terrey Hills |
| Single bird flushed from roadside vegetation and flew off towards dams on adjacent smallholding. (Moderator's Note: this report has been published because while Latham's Snipe could be expected to occur in the general area there are no eBird records for the Terrey Hills-Ingleside-Duffys Forest area. AKM) |
| Kate Buys 8/12 #271987 |
| | Dusky Woodswallow
Northbridge Golf Course |
| Two birds soaring and calling over Northbridge Golf Course at dusk. As I had no optics I recorded the sharp call (sound recording and video - both poor but usable). The recording and a sonogram are available on the eBird List.
eBird records of Dusky Woodswallow are few and far between in eastern Sydney. This is the first eBird record for the Willoughby LGA, but Dusky Woodswallow is referenced in the 2004 Birds of Willoughby by Andy Burton. eBird checklist |
| Mike Kilburn 3/12 #271977 |
| | Broad-billed Sandpiper
Flat Rock, Ballina |
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| Broad-billed Sandpiper seen on the rock at Flat Rock, East Ballina, very late this afternoon. |
| Steven McBride 1/12 #271971 |
| | White-winged Black Tern
Farquar Inlet Old Bar |
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| Two seen with a range of other terns on the beach side of the inlet. (Moderator's Note: One White-winged Black-Tern was first seen in Farquhar Inlet on 29/11/2024 by Max Weatherall, subsequently two were present on 1/12/2024. AKM) eBird checklist |
| Laura van Bussel 1/12 #271970 |
| Sat 30 | | Black Falcon
Old Post Office Lane, Ulmarra |
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| Falcon perched on mound of mud in recently harvested sugar cane field in rain. |
| Greg Clancy 1/12 #271969 |
| Thu 28 | | Little Shearwater
Mandalong Rd., Mandalong |
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| My daughter found the bird in the middle of the road last night and took it to my son who looked after it overnight then took it to a wildlife rescue place today. Must've been blown in by the storm last night like the Black-fronted Dotterel I saw today on a street in Cooranbong looking very out of place. |
| Paul Schofield 29/11 #271965 |
| | White-browed and Masked Woodswallows
Macquarie University, North Ryde Campus |
| Mixed flock of approx 40 birds in all - no idea on proportions but saw both species. Alerted to their presence passing over by their calling. Seen at Waterloo Park (very close to Mac Uni campus) moving eastwards with the weather change passing over Sydney - sighting at approx 8am |
| Tom Wilson 28/11 #271964 |
| Wed 27 | | Latham's Snipe
Macquarie road Fassifern |
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| We have had this little guy here for a few days, never seen one here before but is working the yard over. I did put a post up on Native Birds Australia and was told to report our location for statistics. (Moderator's Note: Latham's Snipe are not uncommon in the Lower Hunter Region but we have published this report because a check of eBird has found that there are basically no Snipe reports in the Fassifern/Teralba area. AKM) |
| Kim Brown 27/11 #271963 |
| Tue 26 | | Budgerigar
Durridgere Road near Turill (Upper Hunter Valley) |
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| 2 Budgerigars in trees by waterhole, 1 photographed. (Moderator's Note: This report is the furthest east that Budgerigars have been reported so far this year and complements a sighting of 7 Budgerigars seen nearby on Durridgerie Rd by Archie Brennan on 9/11/24. AKM). |
| Jeffrey Jones 26/11 #271962 |
| Sun 24 | | Masked Woodswallow
Scheyville National Park--Longneck Lagoon |
| 2 Masked Woodswallows seen with about 30 White-browed Woodswallows at Longneck Lagoon at about 8:30 AM. Poor Idee photo on ebird check list. eBird checklist |
| Michael Rutkowski 24/11 #271961 |
| | Glossy Black Cockatoo
Wentworth Falls |
| Three feeding on casuarina along the Rocket Point Loop Track.
Three seen later near Queens Cascades were presumably the same birds.
Not out of usual range, but a gratifying sight nevertheless. |
| Ted Nixon 24/11 #271960 |
| | Black-winged and White-chinned Petrels
Offshore--Port Stephens pelagic |
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| A less-diverse day off Port Stephens today, partly owing to us fanging out and back at ~20 knots, hence not really seeing any birds in neritic waters. Highlights were a very obliging Black-winged Petrel which is perhaps a little bit unseasonal in November (more often recorded in January), and a White-chinned Petrel which was only the second Port Stephens record for this species. We also had great and close views of White-faced and Wilson's Storm-petrels. (Moderator's Note: So in the past ten days between Terrigal and Port Stephens we've had 4x Cookilarias, 2x Procellarias and 2x Fregettas incl. NZSP - not bad! MR). |
| Mick Roderick and all aboard 'M.V. Reel Contagious' 24/11 #271959 |
| | Sooty Owl
Kurrajong Hills |
| The 'falling bomb' call given several times over half an hour just after midnight, from a dry rainforest creek gully. This is the 3rd record here this year, with no prior records in two decades |
| Eric Finley 24/11 #271955 |
| Fri 22 | | New Zealand Storm Petrel
Terrigal Pelagic |
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| Another cracking trip with NZ Storm Petrel seen well on several occasions at a depth of about 400m. A Black-bellied Storm Petrel was also briefly seen, while 4 individual Red-tailed Tropicbirds were good records on the way out. (Moderator's Note: A great addition to the Central Coast list and only the 6th NSW record of NZSP and from what I can tell, the first ever for November in Australian waters. A BARC submission should be prepared. MR). |
| Central Coast Pelagics (14 on board) 23/11 #271954 |
| Thu 21 | | Cook's, Gould's, Black Petrel, Wandering/Antipodean Albatross
Offshore--Port Stephens pelagic |
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| Solid day off Port Stephens with 18 species recorded outside of the heads. Despite virtually no birds feeding behind the boat we still managed to see Cook's (1), Gould's (3) and Black Petrels, as well as one each of Wandering and Antipodean Albatrosses, with a distant 'very white' Wandering-type unable to be properly identified. Cook's Petrel image by James Bennett. |
| Mick Roderick and all aboard 'Imagine' 24/11 #271958 |
| | Common Terns (26)
Ramsgate Beach Baths, Botany Bay |
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| The summer flock of Common Terns in Botany Bay has returned to their favourite daytime gathering spot, on the swim nets at Ramsgate Beach. |
| Richard Murray 21/11 #271950 |
| Wed 20 | | Square-tailed Kite
New England Highway, 2-3 km SW of Lily Creek, NE of Bendemeer, |
| 1 bird floating moderately low over road and canopy at 09:20 hrs. (Moderator's Note: a check of eBird shows that there are few to no reports of Square-tailed Kites in the Bendemeer area, so this bird, which is a Threatened Species, meets the criteria of being " Rare and or Unusual" and so worthwhile to posting in Birdline NSW. AKM) |
| Greg Clancy 23/11 #271951 |