Greetings,
Spent a great morning's birding at Rose Gums Retreat two days ago. Many birds;
but one of the highlights was watching a Pacific Baza chasing a Little Eagle
from the vicinity of a large Rose Gum, Eucalyptus grandis. Going from memory
only, so I may have missed a couple of species, I saw or heard the following at
Rose Gums (2 hours) and on the drive there and back via a short stop in the car
park at Lake Eacham.
Australian Brush-turkey
Orange-Footed Scrub Fowl
Great Crested Grebe
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Australian Pelican
Pacific Baza
Little Eagle
Brown Goshawk
Buff-banded Rail
Masked Lapwing
Black Kite
Whistling Kite
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Emerald Dove
Crested Pigeon
Peaceful Dove
Bar-shouldered Dove
Wompoo Fruit-Dove
Superb Fruit-Dove
Topknot Pigeon
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot
Australian King Parrot
Oriental Cuckoo
Little Bronze-Cuckoo
Channel-billed Cuckoo
Pheasant Coucal
White-rumped Swiftlet
Laughing Kookaburra
Forest Kingfisher
Dollarbird
White-throated Treecreeper
Red-backed Fairy-Wren
Yellow-throated Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Large-Billed Scrubwren
Brown Gerygone
Helmeted Friarbird
Little Friarbird
Noisy Friarbird
Blue-faced Honeyeater
MacLeay's Honeyeater
Lewin's Honeyeater
Eastern Spinebill
Brown Honeyeater
Dusky Honeyeater
Scarlet Honeyeater
Pale-yellow Robin
Grey-headed Robin
Chowchilla
Eastern Whipbird
Golden Whistler
Grey Whistler
Little Shrike-thrush
Bower's Shrike-thrush
Black-faced Monarch
Spectacled Monarch
Leaden Flycatcher
Magpie-lark
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Spangled Drongo
Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Barred Cuckoo-Shrike
White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike
Varied Triller
Figbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Victoria's Riflebird *
Torresian Crow
Spotted Catbird
Tooth-Billed Bowerbird
Richard's Pipit
Red-browed Finch
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
Mistletoe Bird
Fairy Martin
Tawny Grassbird
Silvereye
Metallic Starling
Common Myna
The Blue-faced Honeyeater is an unusual record for here in Yungaburra but one
has been hanging around my yard for a few weeks now. Breeding activity is in
full swing with lots of birds displaying, nesting or feeding young.
Down on the coast people are seeing Buff=breasted Kingfishers every where. The
Asian Dowitcher on the Esplanade in Cairns is attracting plenty of attention.
Regards,
Alan Gillanders
Alan's Wildlife Tours
2 Mather Road
Yungaburra 4884
www.alanswildlifetours.com.au
Phone 07 4095 3784
Int. + 61 7 4095 3784
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