Hi all
Had a great time last week at the Kingfisher Bay Bird Week on Fraser Island,
met lots of great people, did some fun activities and saw heaps of birds
(and managed to add many new ones to my list!).
Starting off around the resort I got
Pelicans
Scarlet Honeyeaters
Grey Shrike Thrush
Welcome Swallows
White-Cheeked Honeyeaters
Little Pied Cormorants
Little Black Cormorants
Gull Billed Terns
Crested Terns
Rainbow Lorikeets
Sulpher Crested Cockatoo
Lewins Honeyeaters
Osprey
Pied Butcherbird
First activity for the day was a cruise through the RAMSAR area on a small
catamaran, with Mike West and Linda Cross as our guides, the water was glass
flat and the day beautiful and clear (so we had no trouble setting up a
scope on the deck). The area has a number of small rocky islands and sand
bars. During the trip we saw:
Caspian terns
Bottlenose Dolphins
Beach Stone Curlews (a total of six individuals were seen)
Whimbrels
Brown Goshawk
Australian Hobby
Torressian Crows
Rainbow Lorikeets
Pied Oystercatchers
Sooty Oystercatchers (A new one for me!)
Eastern Curlew
Reef Egret (Dark morph) (A new one for me)
Reef Egret (Light morph) (and again a new one to me)
Sacred Kingfisher
A Hawksbill Turtle
White Bellied Sea-Eagles
Brahminy Kites
A Dugong
Whistling Kites
White Winged Black Terns (another new one for me)
Little Egret
White-Faced Herons
Little Tern
Bar Tailed Godwits
Red Capped Plovers
Grey Tailed Tattlers
Greenshank
Common Tern (yet another new one for me)
Masked Lapwings
Back at the resort after the cruise I got:
Blue Faced Honeyeaters
Bar Shouldered Doves
Grey Fantails
Buff Banded Rail
Rainbow Bee-eaters
Pacific Black Ducks
White Throated Honeyeaters
Red Backed Fairy wrens
Rufus Whistler (female)
Mistletoebird
Forest Kingfisher
Noisy Friar Bird (heard)
During the afternoon and evening I attended presentations by photographers
Graeme Chapman and Darren Leal together with a talk from Michael Morcombe on
distribution maps.
All up a great fun day of birding!
Will report on Day 2 tomorrow.
Thanks
Lee
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