{"id":4379,"date":"2024-10-30T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:24:57","slug":"a-bit-of-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/10\/30\/a-bit-of-birding\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of birding."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two visits a couple of days apart along a creek-side track in the foothills. The creek is south of a quite steep ridge and is heavily vegetated with tall timber with a varied understory, including for example Elaeocarpus reticulatus,\u00a0 Prostanthera lasianthos, and Pomaderris aspera. South of the track the country has been burnt, with little sign yet of regeneration apart from a few Goodenia ovata. Consequently most birds recorded were along the creek, with a small number of notable exceptions. Golden Whistlers were numerous and vocal, with Grey Shrike-thrush and Fantailed Cuckoos calling, one of which posed for a photo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/angustk\/fantail.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1031\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also noted were Eastern Yellow and Rose Robins, Leaden Flycatcher, Grey Fantail nest-sitting, with Yellow-faced Honeyeaters in the high treetops. Along the firebreak abutting the track and burnt country, a mature male Satin Bowerbird, a pair of Painted Button-quail, and a brief sighting of what was probably a Spotted Quail-thrush were good sightings. A flock of White-winged Choughs had been sighted on the drive in to the creek, and then on scanning the treetops an active nest was discovered at a considerable height. While watching, one parent returned with food, fed a youngster, and then took over nest sitting duties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/angustk\/chough1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"801\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/angustk\/chough2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"865\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/angustk\/chough3.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"856\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/angustk\/nest.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"673\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two visits a couple of days apart along a creek-side track in the foothills. The creek is south of a quite steep ridge and is heavily vegetated with tall timber with a varied understory, including for example Elaeocarpus reticulatus,\u00a0 Prostanthera lasianthos, and Pomaderris aspera. South of the track the country has been burnt, with little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/10\/30\/a-bit-of-birding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bit of birding.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}