Eight Mile Tank Tk NSW

Survey Point Eight Mile Tank Tk NSW
Latitude-32.7136100 (32° 42′ 49″ S)
Longitude142.4388900 (142° 26′ 20″ E)

About 34k south of Menindee on the Pooncarie Rd, a small unmarked track leads 2km east to the tank, that is now three troughs in three paddocks, the site being in the corner. There are some trees and shrubs around, but the ground cover is usually gone because of the stock.

No camping advised here

Surveys done 3

Blogs, see main page archives:

Broome to Melbourne via Port Hedland Karijini NP Mt Augustus NP Kennedy Ranges NP Nullarbor Menindee Lakes 2019

Perth to Melbourne 2023

  • Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera 1 (33.33%)
  • Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes 1 (33.33%)
  • Australian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles cristatus 1 (33.33%)
  • Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax 1 (33.33%)
  • Galah Eolophus roseicapilla 1 (33.33%)
  • Red-rumped Parrot Psephotus haematonotus 1 (33.33%)
  • Bluebonnet Northiella haematogaster 1 (33.33%)
  • Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius 1 (33.33%)
  • Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens 1 (33.33%)
  • Yellow-throated Miner Manorina flavigula 3 (100.00%) (B)
  • Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus 1 (33.33%)
  • Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae 1 (33.33%)
  • Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis 1 (33.33%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 2 (66.67%)
  • Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis 2 (66.67%)
  • Australian Raven Corvus coronoides 2 (66.67%)
  • Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca 2 (66.67%)
  • Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea 1 (33.33%)
  • Australasian Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae 1 (33.33%)
  • Tree Martin Petrochelidon nigricans 1 (33.33%)
2019 this is what goats do to a habitat during a drought
Red-rumped Parrot male
2023, where’s Ollie?