Our scout in Seaspray reported that the weather was "mizzling" whereby it was mist and drizzle and you needed wipers on your specs to make sense of anything. The outing venue was changed "on the run" to Lake Guyatt and, after that, Sale Common. We walked as far as we could heading south to the first flooded part beyond the Brick Watering Trough. Several sensible folk had opted to wait a week or so to do the Seaspray outing so we had a perfect 9 folks including Gabby (from USA) with Rod and Michele. We will be doing the Seaspray outing on the first Wednesday in November whilst the "opt-for-a-different-date"rs will do their visit shortly. This way we can be happy we are obeying the Covid social distancing and gathering thing.
Lake Guyatt came up the usual trumps with plenty of good species but the absolute highlight was the small gathering of Scarlet Honeyeaters in flowering eucs near and at the Rifle Butts. We had been a bit confused by the call for a while but then it suddenly clicked. Scarlet HEs are having a bit of an irruption across Gippsland atm. We first thought they were Mistletoebirds.
The birdcall for the day came up with 64 species, an excellent total for quite a social walk!
The first four images are John's and the others are Jack's.
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| New Holland Honeyeater |
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| Superb Fairywren |
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| Chestnut Teal |
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| Royal Spoonbill |
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| Black Swans |
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| Dusky Moorhen |
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| Hardhead |
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| Red Wattlebird |
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| Rufous Whistler, male |
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| Scarlet Honeyeater |
Australasian Darter
Australasian Swamphen
Australian King-Parrot
Australian Magpie
Australian Pelican
Australian Reed Warbler
Australian White Ibis
Australian Wood Duck
Black Swan
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Brown Goshawk
Brown Thornbill
Cattle Egret
Chestnut Teal
Common Blackbird
Common Starling
Crimson Rosella
Dusky Moorhen
Eastern Spinebill
Eurasian Coot
European Goldfinch
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Galah
Golden Whistler
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Fantail
Grey Shrikethrush
Grey Teal
Hardhead
House Sparrow
Latham's Snipe
Laughing Kookaburra
Little Black Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Raven
Little Wattlebird
Magpie-lark
Masked Lapwing
Mistletoebird
New Holland Honeyeater
Olive-backed Oriole
Pacific Black Duck
Pied Currawong
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Royal Spoonbill
Rufous Whistler
Sacred Kingfisher
Scarlet Honeyeater
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
Silvereye
Spotted Dove
Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Superb Fairywren
Swamp Harrier
Welcome Swallow
Whistling Kite
White-browed Scrubwren
White-faced Heron
White-necked Heron
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
