Sue Lashko assisted me to survey the nine sites at Newline, on a cold and windy afternoon - the only time I had available in my schedule. It was relatively quiet, with only 35 species recorded and few spring migrants around. The big highlight was four Brown Treecreepers in the front paddock (usually we get a pair there, and occasionally more, maybe they have bred recently?), plus Speckled Warbler, Southern Whiteface, Jacky Winter and one Masked Woodswallow. One of the biggest flocks of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos I have seen on a woodland survey, around 160 birds, was feeding in one paddock.
Jenny Bounds