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June 2021

Tue 15		Red tail Black cockatoos Monsildale road, Monsildale
		Heard the call first different to yellow tails, then saw 4 fly from a casuarina tree, saw the red tails. Great to see. Not a good photo, quick shot as the flew off.
		Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma Staines 15/6 #260325
Fri 11		Bustard East of Rockhampton
		Two Bustards 32km east of Rockhampton on Emu Park Road
		Bob Moffatt 11/6 #260303
Mon 7		Cotton Pygmy-goose Ewan Maddock Dam, Landsborough
		Total of 16 birds seen on Ewan Maddock Dam, some 200m from causeway at end of Kowald Road, Landsborough. Birds regularly took flight enabling great views of diagonal white band on wings. eBird checklist
		Russ Lamb, Bill Graham (Canberra) 13/6 #260315
		White eared monarch Jagera Ct, Closeburn
		Four white eared monarchs, in the same area as every year. Also, fantail and shining bronze cuckoo's. Striped honeyeaters.
		Bernie and Linda Mcivor and Wilma 8/6 #260291

May 2021

Sun 30		South Island Pied Oystercatcher Bradburys Beach (Dunwich)
		South Island Pied Oystercatcher at Bradbury's Beach (Dunwich) on North Stradbroke Island. Roosting on beach at high tide to west of Straddy Flyer ferry terminal. Clearly shorter legged than surrounding Australian Pied Oystercatcher, despite it missing a foot. Also with a longer, finer bill with a slight upcurve (less deep based). More extensive white on secondaries which reaches white of rump - wedge of white from rump also extends further up back than Australian Pied. Stuart Pickering's shots attached.
		Andy Jensen, Stuart Pickering, Gus Daly and Elliot Leach 31/5 #260259