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Sightings

These are the most recent sightings sent to us by members and the public.
If you would like to log a sighting of any flora or fauna in the Toodyay area, please click the link provided. Please enter your name for for us to verify your sighting,and contact details at the end of your notes, as we may need to get more details from you. You do not have to be a member.
The following information would be useful, if at all possible.
1) time of day?
2) weather conditions?
3) landscape eg: road verge, scrubland, breakaway country, high or low in a tree, etc, ?
4) what the creature was doing at the time of the sighting?
5) approximate size?
6) gender (if possible)?
7) colouration?
8) photographed?
9) any other interesting observation/s at the time of sighting?
10) for plants, the surrounding growth, number of plants and their general condition, is it a wetland?

Please try and limit the number of characters you enter to 100. A photograph will be a great advantage in identification of those hard to categorise animals or plants

Log a sighting

# Date Location Species Notes
1 05-12-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed (Calyptorhynchus banksii) Flying across Ellendale Farm next to Stirlingia Drive. Single bird sighted.
2 30-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Honeyeater, Brown-headed (Melithreptus brevirostris) Nine birds came in at 7am to drink from two bird baths, just after I turned the camera off to change the card.
3 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Fairy-wren, Splendid (Malurus splendens) Male in full colour with a number of females bathing in bird bath. Filmed.
4 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Bronzewing, Common (Phaps chalcoptera) Drinking from bird bath. Filmed.
5 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Robin, Scarlet; Robin Red-breast; (Petroica multicolor) Bathing in bird bath. Filmed.
6 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Parrot, Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius) Two birds in and out of bird bath, swimming and drinking. Filmed.
7 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Honeyeater, Brown-headed (Melithreptus brevirostris) On bird bath.
8 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Weebill ((Smicrornis brevirostris ssp. occidentalis) On bird bath drinking.
9 24-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Monitor, Goulds; Sand Monitor (Varanus gouldii) Near one of our bird baths so was asked (not so politely) to leave by Desrae
10 23-11-2023 Midwest-Gascoyne, Goldfields-Midlands, Metro North Coastal, Metro North East, Metro South East, Metr Event - heatwave A heatwave lasting eight days across the Midwest-Gascoyne, Goldfields-Midlands, Metro North Coastal, Metro North East, Metro South East, Metro South Coastal, South West, Lower South West. Bushfires in Perth northern suburbs have destroyed a number of homes in several suburbs. Temperatures ranging to above 40 degrees.
11 19-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Tree-creeper, Rufous (Climacteris rufus) Very active over the past few days
12 19-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Honeyeater, Brown-headed (Melithreptus brevirostris) Two birds drinking - filmed.
13 19-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Bronzewing, Common (Phaps chalcoptera) Two birds drinking together - filmed
14 19-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Silvereye; White-Eyes; Zosterops lateralis Four birds bathing and drinking. Filmed
15 16-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Monitor, Goulds; Sand Monitor (Varanus gouldii) Drank from bird bath outside back veranda. Chased away from area as there are many small birds nesting there.
16 16-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Butcherbird, Pied Three birds answering each other on farmland.
17 13-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Honeyeater, Brown-headed (Melithreptus brevirostris) Bathing in bird bath. Filmed with sensor camera
18 12-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Cuckoo-shrike, Black-faced (Coracina novaehollandiae) Making a visit daily now
19 11-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed (Calyptorhynchus banksii) Four birds flying towards the east at around 5.30pm. Rain and possible thunderstorms due
20 10-11-2023 Stirlingia Drive, Majestic Heights Cuckoo-shrike, Black-faced (Coracina novaehollandiae) Seen again this morning taking advantage of our bird baths.

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