Hello all,
Sorry that this is coming to all a bit late, but I thought that some people
may be interested all the same.
Whilst enoying a peaceful, and relaxing honeymoon with my wife (don't laugh
Chris) in early November (7th - 12th) we had the extreme pleaseure in
staying at the Green Cape Lightstation, south of Eden, on the south-east
coast of New South Wales. The lightstation is part of Ben Boyd National
Park, and is offered up as accomodation to the public from the NSW National
Parks and Wildlife Service. Although I did not birdwatch as many others
would, I still took note of what I observed during walks around the
lightstation area, and other part of the Park.
Of particular note was the resident pair of White-bellied Sea Eagles who
were seen every day scanning the cape around the lighthouse, and a bowerbird
who had the taste for anything which it could prise off from a Bluebird
(Nissan that is), and a Diamond Python doing a bit of rabbit control of it
own.
My observations are as follows:
Birds
White-bellied Sea Eagle Grey Shrike-thrush
Wedge-tailed Eagle Grey Fantail
Brown Falcon Willie Wagtail
Australian Hobby Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Brush Bronzewing White-winged Triller
Wonga Pigeon Olive-backed Oriole
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Australian Magpie
Galah Pied Currawong
Rinbow Lorikeet Australian Raven
Australian King Parrot Satin Bowerbird
Crimson Rosella Singing Bushlark
Laughing Kookaburra Richard's Pipit
Rainbow Bee-eater Welcome Swallow
Superb Lyrebird Silvereye
Superb Fairy-wren Blackbird
Spotted Pardalote Australasian Gannet
Striated Fieldwren Silver Gull
Weebill Crested Tern
Yellow -rumped Thornbill Little Black Cormorant
Yellow Thornbill Great Cormorant
Striated Thornbill Sooty Oystercatcher
Red Wattlebird
Little Wattlebird
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
Eastern Yellow Robin
Eastern Whipbird
Mammals
Humpback Whale Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Australian Fur Seal Black Wallaby
Bottlenose Dolphin Echidna
Rabbit
Reptiles
Diamond Python Boulenger's Skink
Eastern Brown Snake Jacky Lizard
Sand Goanna
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