Hi all,
I have just returned from a truly memorable trip to Cape York (with Grev
and Margaret Reidy) and Torres Strait (aboard the Jodi-Ann) some of the
many highlights were:
Golden Shouldered Parrots including two males at Windmill Creek.
A pair of nesting and mating Red Goshawks at Musgrave.
Black Backed butcherbirds
Lesser Sooty Owl and Papuan Frogmouths at Kingfisher Park
Singing Starlings, Collared Imperial Pigeons, Papuan Flowerpecker,
Pale White-eye, Little Kingfisher, Red Backed Button Quail, Antarctic
Prion White Faced Storm-petrel, and large numbers of Rose Crowned
Fruit-doves (Darnely Island) in Torres Strait. Also possible Pacific
Swallows on Horn Island.
The most interesting bird on the trip was "Baxter's Sparrowhawk" on
Saibai Island. This may have been a hybrid between a Collared
Sparrowhawk and Grey Headed Goshawk as it resembled a Collared
Sparrowhak on the upper surface but was snow white underneath except for
dark tips to the primaries.
Thanks go to Mike Carter for organising the Torres Strait trip, the crew
of the Jodi-Ann and fellow birders on board and the previous group who
helped by locating the Papuan Flowerpecker in particular.
On returning to Cairns there was a Broad Billed Snadpiper on the
Esplanade.
Happy birding,
John Reidy
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