Moondyne Festival


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. You must 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. Please try and limit the number of characters you enter to 100. A photograph will be a great advantage in identification those hard to identify creatures

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# Date Location Species Notes
1941 18-05-2019 Toodyay Road Black Cockatoo, White-tailed (Carnaby's) Cnr Racecourse Road - over fifty Carnaby's feeding in the paddock.
1942 22-06-2019 Cnr Sandplain Road and Wandoo Circle Black Cockatoo, White-tailed (Carnaby's) Flock of about 15 birds on the floor feeding on marri gum nuts
1943 05-02-1989 Stirlingia Drive, Toodyay Black Cockatoo, White-tailed (Carnaby's) Diary record
1944 03-12-1989 Stirlingia Drive, Toodyay Black Cockatoo, White-tailed (Carnaby's)
1945 01-04-2019 Town of Northam Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Seen flying east over Coles
1946 11-04-2019 Julimar Springs Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Mother and chicks. Sue Eldridge
1947 12-04-2019 Julimar Springs Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Mother & chicks again sighted. Sue Eldridge
1948 01-08-2019 795 Bindoon Dewars Pool Road Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Group of 8 inclusive of 3 juveniles, one is very young, the parents leave them near our water trough and go off for the day foraging for food, they then collect them later in the day. 1st August 2019
1949 23-11-2019 Stirlingia Drive, Toodyay Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Flying eastwards early morning
1950 21-11-2019 Clackline Road, Hoddy's Well Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Four birds feeding in marri tree near shearing sheds. Reported by Brian Wood
1951 30-11-2019 Stirlingia Drive, Toodyay Black Cockatoo, Red-tailed Six birds on farm below, late afternoon
1952 08-12-2019 264 Timber Creek Drive Black Cockatoo, Red tailed Around 6am while walking past 264 Timber Creek Drive. 5 birds eating the nuts in a marri tree.Slightly grey in colour. We saw the red tail on one large one. As they were largely behind leafy branches, we could not get an idea of whether the others might be young or mature, but none seemed very small.
1953 23-06-2018 Bindoon-Dewars Pool Rd Toodyay Black Cockatoo, Carnaby's Small Group of Carnabys Cockatoos. Numbers not confirmed as I only identified them by their calls.
1954 25-02-2020 Outside Office Majestic Heights Black ant Have been observing ants busy preparing for rain. They have dragged small twigs (some 10cm/1mm dia, others 1-2cm/2.5mm dia) around the entrance to their nest. Photographed.
1955 17-01-2019 near Wandoo Circle Bee-eaters, Rainbow A couple of birds seen and heard, flying quite high, 5.15PM
1956 23-10-2012 Majestic Heights Toodyay Bee-eater, Rainbow Catching insects
1957 14-03-2013 Arinya Farm Bee-eater, Rainbow Uncommon most of summer
1958 10-02-2014 Flying across Drummondi Drive into Mavis Jeffery Reserve Bee-eater, Rainbow 2 sighted in flight
1959 16-03-2014 Bilya Walk Track, Lloyd Reserve Bee-eater, Rainbow Large flock heading north over Connor' Bridge
1960 04-03-2015 Majestic Heights Bee-eater, Rainbow large flocks gathering for migration

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