| Mon 6 | | Pale-vented Bush-hen
Dirty Creek Range, S of Halfway Creek |
| Pair calling loudly in wetland at 1824 hrs. |
| Russell Jago per Greg Clancy 6/10 #272785 |
| | Pheasant Coucal
Willunga Track, Ku-ring-Gai NP |
| 2 birds (maybe a 3rd) calling from the scrub to the north of the track approx. 11:30am. Also 3 Glossy Black Cockatoos (2 Ad, 1 noisy youngster) and a singing Chestnut-rumped Heathwren eBird checklist |
| Tom Wilson 6/10 #272784 |
| Sun 5 | | Eastern Koel, Channel-billed Cuckoo
Coutts Crossing Village |
| Both cuckoos heard calling in the early morning were the first returning birds for this site. |
| Greg Clancy 5/10 #272781 |
| | Little Bronze-Cuckoo, Eastern Koel, Australian Owlet-nightjar, Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
South Grafton Water Reserve (Abattoir TSR) |
| The Little Bronze-cuckoo heard calling was the observers' first record of the season. The Owlet-nightjar called during the heat of the day. The Eastern Koel was the observers' first record for the season shared with a bird heard calling at Coutts Crossing earlier. The Channel-billed Cuckoos, adult male Eastern Shike-tit and Black-chinned Honeyeaters were also present again today. eBird checklist |
| Greg Clancy, Rodney Falconer 5/10 #272780 |
| Sat 4 | | Channel-billed Cuckoo, Brown Treecreeper, Eastern Shrike-tit, Black-chinned Honeyeater
South Grafton Water Reserve (Abattoir TSR) |
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| Birds observed/heard during banding operations at the site. The Channel-billed Cuckoo was the first local record for most observers, the Eastern Shrike-tit, although known at the site, is rare close to Grafton, the Brown Treecreeper has declined at the site and apart from a single bird banded in 2019 was thought to be locally extinct. A Dusky Woodswallow and a pair of Little Lorikeets observed at the site are generally rare locally. Black-chinned Honeyeaters are regular at the site. eBird checklist |
| Greg Clancy, Rodney Falconer, Richard Harris, Clive Barker, Russell Jago 5/10 #272779 |
| Fri 3 | | Spangled Drongo, Olive-backed Oriole
Eastlakes golf course |
| A good selection of passage migrants today including 3 Sacred Kingfisher, 2 Rufous Whistler, 2 Scarlet Myzomela, 2 Latham’s Snipe, 1 Spangled Drongo and an Olive-backed Oriole. Snipe have been very scarce here in recent years. |
| David Mitford 6/10 #272783 |