NZ Visitor_Bernd_Western Treatment Plant

Bernd spent 13 hours of his last day in Australia at no better place for birding -- the Western Treatment Plant. An early leave from Sale - 4am!! - meant we were at the crake pond by 7.15 for all the action and it went on for the whole day totally 80 species. Highlights were 10 species of duck, a family of Black-shouldered Kites, a Black Falcon overfly whilst a dozen Brown Quail whizzed about the track next to the Crake Pond, and some Zebra Finches.

Australian Spotted Crake Porzana fluminea

Black Falcon Falco subniger

Brown Quail Coturnix ypsilophora

Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

Australian Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus australis

Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris Acuminata

White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata

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Day 05/06 Strzelecki Track

Target birds along the Strzelecki Track were the Thick-billed and Eyrean Grasswrens, Letter-winged Kite, Cinnamon Quail-thrush and Gibberbird. All bar the LWK were seen though not necessarily photographed. Grasswrens are FAST!

Here is a collection of presentable images of birds photographed in chronological order over two days.

Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae

Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus

Chirruping Wedgebill Psophodes cristatus

Cinnamon Quail-thrush Cinclosoma cinnamomeum

Galah Eolophus roseicapilla albiceps

Little Crow Corvus bennetti

Nankeen Kestrel Falco cenchroides

Orange Chat Epthianura aurifrons

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys

Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata

Banded Whiteface Acephalocephala nigricincta

 
Gibberbird Ashbyia lovensis

Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida

Pied Honeyeater Certhionix variegatus

Red-browed Pardalote  Pardalotus rubricatus

White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
White-plumed Honeyeater Ptilotula penicillata