Spotted Pardalote (Photo by Gail Bryant)
Last Sunday I travelled to Merrifield and Gwydir Park Rd TSR, between Armidale and Bundarra, with my friend Peter. I was able to add 17 new birds to my list for the year. Now have 132 for the year. Video was not taken of all these species on the day as I have been taking video in HD since the beginning of 2009 and already have most of these species.
Bird list for the day:
Peaceful Dove
Musk Lorikeet
White-plumed Honeyeater
Magpie-Lark
Grey Teal
Australian Wood Duck
Red-rumped Parrot
Rufous Songlark
Striped Honeyeater
Black-fronted Dotterel
Torresian Crow
Diamond Firetail
Little Lorikeet
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Speckled Warbler
Jacky Winter
Fuscous Honeyeater
Red-browed Finch
Galah
Rainbow Bee-Eater
Dusky Woodswallow
Eastern Yellow Robin
Pied Butcherbird
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Brown Treecreeper
Grey Fantail
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
as well as Superb Fairy-Wren, Spotted Pardalote, Rufous Whistler, Willie Wagtail, Australian Magpie, Noisy Minor, Noisy Friarbird, Grey Butcherbird, Crimson Rosella, Eastern Rosella and Welcome Swallow.
Also saw
Eurasian Coot
Pacific Black Duck
Black Swan
Wandering Whistling-Duck
Australasian Swamphen
Australasian Grebe
at a lake on the way home. Not bad for a morning!!