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Hi Birders,
I will be flying in to Brisbane on Friday
the 3rd of January, arriving at 7:35 AM for a days clear birding before visiting
non-birding friends for the weekend then looking forward to working for a
fortnight as a nature guide at O'Reilly's.
On the 3rd I will hire a car
at the airport and then I have the following itinerary planned where I will see
the following new birds, on only my second trip to
Queensland:
Samsonvale Lake
Bar-shouldered
Dove
Black Falcon
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Forest Kingfisher
Forest
Pigeon
Grey Goshawk
Gull-billed Tern
King Quail
Osprey
Varied
Triller
Samsonvale Cemetery
Little
Bronze-cuckoo
Tawny Grassbird
Mt Mee State
Forest
Cicadabird
Dusky Honeyeater
Leaden
Flycatcher
Red-chested Button-quail
Spectacled
Monarch
Toorbul Point
Broad-billed
Sandpiper
Collared Kingfisher
Grey-tailed Tattler
Gull-billed
Tern
Large Sand Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Mangrove Gerygone
Mangrove
Honeyeater
Osprey
Terek Sandpiper
Tinchi
Tamba
Bar-shouldered Dove
Collared
Kingfisher
Dollarbird
Mangrove Gerygone
Mangrove
Honeyeater
Osprey
White-breasted Woodswallow
Does this seem too
ambitious? My feeble Twitchathon attempt shows that too much ambition is a
problem that I have had to deal with before. Am I missing any bleedingly
obvious hotspots? Especially any spots where I might see any of the
following new birds mentioned in reports from the area, but a bit too far for me
to make:
Bush Hen
Bush Thick-knee
Cotton Pygmy-goose
Dusky
Honeyeater
Eastern Reef Egret
Greater Sand Plover
Lesser Crested
Tern
Lesser Sand Plover
Little Bittern
Little Shrike Thrush
Roseate
Tern
Sooty Tern
Wandering Tattler
Wandering Whistling-duck
And finally would anyone like to join me, I would be happy for
the company, a navigational aid and even a assistant to decipher new waders for
me (like I have the regular Victorian ones under my belt!)
Thanks to the people who have posted trip reports to
Birding-Aus, from which I gathered this information and I look forward to
hearing from people, any comment at all welcome.
Stuart
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