W Side Calverts Lagoon 11:50 
Eastern Rosella 4 
Grey Butcherbird 1 
Scarlet Robin M 1 
White-fronted Chat 11 
European Greenfinch 12 
Hooded Plover 4 
Australasian Pipit 2 
Yellow-rumped Thornbill 4 
Flame Robin 2 
Goats Bluff 13:00 
Black-faced Cormorant 8 
Greater Crested Tern 18 
Blackjack Rock 
Sooty Oystercatcher 1 
Silver Gull circa 15 
Betsy Island 13:20 
Wedge-tailed Eagle 2 
White-bellied Sea Eagle 2 
Forest Raven 3 
Pacific Gull 2 (on water) 
Beach (Roaring Beach?) 13:50 
Hooded Plover 2 
Goats Bluff 14:10 
Scarlet Robin 1 male 
Superb Fairy-Wrens 
Yellow-throated Honeyeater 
South Arm Neck 14:20 (Els only) 
European Greenfinch c30 
Lime Bay State Reserve 
3 September 2016 
n a misty overcast day with cloud settling on the 
surrounding hills, seven of us (Gen, David, 
Amanda, Kaye, Don, Abbey and Jane), arrived at 
the camping ground by midmorning. At the entrance, 
one car load of people was surprised to spot a southern 
brown bandicoot roaming through the tussocks. Then all 
were all delightfully entertained by a young puggle 
snuffling its way unconcernedly through the campsite. 
We wandered down to the white sandy beach to have a 
quick look at the pied and sooty oystercatchers strutting 
along the foreshore, before taking the inland track 
towards Lagoon Beach. 
This flat sandy track passed through open woodland 
with a wide range of understorey and ground cover 
species, and coastal heath. Epacris shrubs bloomed pink 
and white, the air was filled with spring birdsong and the 
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sun even came out. We strolled along to a fork in the 
path where we sat down to wait for everyone to catch 
up, have lunch and sample Gen's delicious banana 
bread. 
Instead of tramping on ahead and over the dunes to the 
beach, we turned left towards the lagoons. Unusually, 
they were all brimming blue with water and dotted with 
black swans and shelduck. We gradually skirted around 
the marshy edges and made our way back to the 
campsite by a new linking track through the woodland, 
at the head of the lagoons. All in all, a very pleasant, 
easy and varied circular walk. 
Jane Catchpole 
Species list (seen/heard) 
Birds 
Yellow wattle bird 
Masked lapwing 
Oystercatcher, pied and sooty 
Grey shrike thrush 
Yellow throated honey eater 
Striated and spotted pardalote 
Green rosella 
Grey fantail 
Flame robin 
Black swan 
Australian shelduck 
Australasian pipit 
Fantailed cuckoo 
White faced heron 
Great egret 
Flowering Plants 
Leucopogon ericoides 
Acacia suaveolens 
Acacia dealbata 
Epacris impressa 
Eucalyptus amgydalina 
Leptospermum lanigerum 
Mosquito/gnat orchid in bud 
Native cherry 
Frogs 
Tasmanian froglet 
Fungi 
Bovista sp. 
Cortinaruis sp. 
Fomitiporia robusta 
Inocybe sp 
BULLETIN 364 September 2016 
