Hi all
last Sunday, I went for a walk with my family along the Sphinx Track in
Ku-rin-gai National Park (northern Sydney). The track runs from the Bobbin
Head Road gate, following a creek line and comes out at Warrimoo Creek, when
one can then follow that creek to Bobbin Head. Due to an administrative
oversight (ie forgetting to pick up my bins after repacking my daypack), I
was without optical aids for the walk, which made it an interesting birding
experience. I obviously had to use my ears lots more than usual, picking
out different calls, listening for rustles in the undergrowth etc and then
seeing how close I could get to the bird to get a view. Some were ID'd on
call alone, noted as V in the list below. Of course, in some cases the
birds came to me, like the Superb Lyrebird scratching about just off the
track and the Common Bronzewing the flushed as I walked past it. Thinking
on it, doing a walk like this every so often is probably a good exercise for
keeping one's ears "in practice"
Nonetheless, it was a pretty successful walk, with the following species
heard or seen in the wet forest area.
Cheers
Tom Wilson:
Wonga Pigeon-V Common Bronzewing Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet King Parrot Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella Kookaburra Superb Lyrebird
White Throated Treecreeper Variegated Wren
Spotted Pardalote-V Striated Pardalote White Browed Scrubwren
Brown Gerygone-V Brown Thornbill Striated Thornbill
Little Wattlebird Red Wattlebird Noisy Miner
Lewins HE-V Yellow Faced HE Yellow Tufted HE
White Naped HE N Holland HE White Cheeked HE
E Spinebill Scarlet HE E Yellow
Robin
E Whipbird-V Crested Shrike Tit Golden Whistler-V
Rufous Whistler Grey Shrike Thrush-V Grey Fantail
Grey Butcherbird-V Pied Currawong Aust Raven
Red Browed Finch Silvereye
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