Wednesday 4 February 2015

Mount Elephant Road – St Marys

It was a great morning on the Elephant Farm road walk with a highlight being the abundance of Strong-billed Honeyeaters and the mandatory snake sighting for this time of the year. (Bird list attached).

Best birding wishes,
Liz


Bird List:
Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus
Scrubtit Acanthornis magus
Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilis
Tasmanian Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Yellow-throated Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis
Strong-billed Honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris
Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis
Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea 
Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa
Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang
Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
Beautiful Firetail Stagonopleura bella