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Westgate Park Bird Count |
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By: Rob
Youl, Peter Parrington, Jackie Kerr, Gregor Howie |
Date: 6
July 2020 |
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Weather: Overcast. Temp 8.5⁰ C - 13⁰ C |
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Coverage: Entire survey route completed |
Time start: 0840 |
Time finish: 1315 |
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Species |
Number seen |
Species |
Number seen |
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Brown Quail |
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Galah |
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Black Swan |
2
(*2) |
Long-billed Corella |
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Australian
Shelduck |
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Sulphur-crested Cockatoo |
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Australian Wood
Duck |
2 |
Rainbow Lorikeet |
12 |
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Pink-eared Duck |
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Musk Lorikeet |
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Australasian
Shoveler |
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Little Lorikeet |
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Grey Teal |
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Purple-crowned Lorikeet |
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Chestnut Teal |
14 |
Eastern Rosella |
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Pacific Black
Duck |
2 |
HorsfieldŐs Bronze-Cuckoo |
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Hardhead |
2 |
Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
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Australasian
Grebe |
7 |
Southern Boobook |
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Hoary-headed
Grebe |
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Barn Owl |
1 |
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Rock Dove |
12 |
Sacred Kingfisher |
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Spotted Turtle-Dove |
10
(4) |
Superb Fairy-wren |
58 (13 blue) plus *4 (1blue) |
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Common
Bronzewing |
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White-browed Scrubwren |
3 |
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Crested Pigeon |
6 |
Brown Thornbill |
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Darter |
(*1) |
Spotted Pardalote |
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Little Pied
Cormorant |
(*2) |
White-plumed Honeyeater |
38 (*12) |
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Great Cormorant |
(*1) |
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater |
3 |
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Little Black
Cormorant |
*55 |
Little Wattlebird |
3 (*4) |
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Pied Cormorant |
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Red Wattlebird |
36 (*11) |
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Australian
Pelican |
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New Holland Honeyeater |
54 |
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Eastern Great
Egret |
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White-naped Honeyeater |
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White-faced
Heron |
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Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike |
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Nankeen
Night-Heron |
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White-winged Triller |
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Australian
White Ibis |
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Golden
Whistler |
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Straw-necked
Ibis |
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Grey Shrike-thrush |
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Royal Spoonbill |
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Grey Butcherbird |
1 |
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Black-shouldered
Kite |
1 (juvenile?) |
Australian Magpie |
3 |
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Whistling Kite |
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Pied Currawong |
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Brown Goshawk |
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Grey fantail |
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Little Eagle |
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Willie Wagtail |
9 |
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Nankeen Kestrel |
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Little Raven |
30 |
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Brown Falcon |
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Satin Flycatcher |
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Australian
Hobby |
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Magpie-lark |
11 (*1) |
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Peregrine
Falcon |
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Flame Robin |
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Purple Swamphen |
4 |
Rose Robin |
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Buff-banded
Rail |
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Noisy Miner |
5 (Todd Road) |
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BaillonŐs Crake |
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Golden-headed Cisticola |
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Australian
Spotted Crake |
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Australian Reed-Warbler |
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Black-tailed
Native-hen |
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Little Grassbird |
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Dusky Moorhen |
13 |
Silvereye |
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Eurasian Coot |
82 |
Welcome Swallow |
4 |
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Black-winged
Stilt |
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Tree Martin |
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Black-fronted
Dotterel |
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Common Blackbird |
2 |
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Red-kneed
Dotterel |
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Common Starling |
12 |
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Masked
Lapwing |
1 |
Common Myna |
12 |
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LathamŐs Snipe |
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Red-browed Finch |
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Crested Tern |
(*2) |
House Sparrow |
25 |
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Pacific Gull |
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Australasian Pipit |
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Silver Gull |
80
(*80) |
European Greenfinch |
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Pied
Oystercatcher |
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European Goldfinch |
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Number of Bird Species - Wetland dependent & RaptorsÉ
= 15 Land based É.
25 Total |
40 Species |
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Other animals: Common
Froglets, Crinia signifera calling in
dam, and virtually all wetlands
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* seen at/along Yarra River only.
Note: For species seen in large numbers,
or for which accurate counting was difficult the number seen is rounded off to
the nearest of tens or fives followed by a +.
D - Denotes dependent
young plus number of separate broods.
Habitat: Thanks to continuing rains,
water levels and quality in the fresh water lake are very high with a reduction
in numbers of several species of water birds. The salt lake level continues to
rise. It now reads .83 m – up
.03m from the last survey.
Vegetation throughout the park
continues to respond well, with many wattles about to flower, and is supporting good
numbers of land-based birds.
Raptors: a young black-shouldered kite was observed - once frequent; an unusual sighting now
following the latest port developments.
Interesting/notable sightings:
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One barn owl near the windmill. Red Wattlebirds and Little
Ravens were quick to circle and harass
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Opportunistic Sightings – Interesting or unusual sightings reported
between surveys |
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Date |
Species |
Number seen |
Observer |
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6
June |
Little
Eagle |
1 |
Rohan
Clarke eBird |
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Brown
Thornbill |
1 |
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Silvereye |
2 |
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10 June |
Yellow-tailed Black
Cockatoo |
3 |
Janine
Duffy eBird |
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24 June |
Pied
Oystercatcher |
2 |
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25 June |
Australasian Darter |
1 |
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6 June |
Yellow-tailed Black
Cockatoo |
40 (feeding all day in wattles) |
George
Fotheringham |
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7 June |
Eastern Great
Egret |
1 |
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8 June |
Nankeen
Night-Heron |
1 |
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Black
Swan |
2 + 7D hatched |
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11 June |
White-faced
Heron |
1 |
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22 June |
Brown Falcon |
1 |
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26 June |
Eastern Great
Egret |
1 |
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Barn
owl – found sheltering in the large red ironbark near the windmill (1-4
– Gregor Howie; 5 – Peter Parrington
Report prepared by Rob Youl, robmyoul@gmail.com; Andrew McCutcheon, awmccutcheon1@bigpond.com