Hi all
The Maryborough Birdwatchers Club had a great day at Tin Can Bay (QLD) on
Sat.
The weather was fine and sunny, plus we had a nice cool breeze coming off
the water so we didn't get too hot from all our walking.
We started the day at the picnic grounds and proceeded to walk all along the
foreshore to our lunch spot about 4kms away. The walk was very easy,
enjoyable and wound its way through sections of beach, mangroves and native
trees. We had fantastic views of Rainbow Bee-eaters (I've never seen so
many in one place, they were everywhere!), Mangrove Honeyeaters, White
Cheeked Honeyeaters, and Brahminy & Whistling Kites.
After lunch we went to the wild flower walk on the other side of Tin Can Bay
and got great views of Variegated Fairy-Wrens and Collared Kingfishers.
Didn't get any new birds for my list (no sign of the Red-Winged Parrots
which the Tin Can Bay brochure said were common for the area - oh well, next
time perhaps).
All up the group had another wonderful time exploring somewhere different.
Our list for the day:
Straw-Necked Ibis
Torresian Crow
Wood Duck
Magpie
Masked Lapwing
Blue-Faced Honeyeater
Spotted Turtledove
Figbird
Pied Butcherbird
Pelican
Pied Cormorant
Crested Pigeon
Rainbow Bee-eater
Mangrove Honeyeater
White Ibis
Silver Gull
Welcome Swallow
Little Egret
Brown Honeyeater
Pied Oystercatcher
Gull-Billed Tern
Whistling Kite
Brahminy Kite
Kookaburra
Grey Shrike Thrush
Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo
House Sparrow
Magpie Lark (plus sighted one nesting pair)
Rainbow Lorikeet
Noisy Friarbird
White Throated Honeyeater
Mistletoebird
White Cheeked Honeyeater
Greenshank
Forest Kingfisher
Eastern Curlew
Rufus Whistler
Whimbrel
Leaden Flycatcher (plus a couple of pairs on nests)
Terek Sandpiper
Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike
Tree Martin
Striated Heron
Willy Wagtail
Peaceful Dove
Little Wattlebird
Bar Shouldered Dove
Striated Pardalote
Great Egret
Variegated Fairy-Wren
Collared Kingfisher
White-Breasted Woodswallow
Feral Pigeon
Scaly Breasted Lorikeet
Galah
Brown Thornbill
White Bellied Sea-Eagle
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Shrike Thrush
Happy Birding
Lee
Hervey Bay - QLD
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