RFI: Spotted quail thrush, eastern grass owl, Brisbane.

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:27:48PM +1000, L&L Knight wrote:
> Does any one know of any spotted quail thrush sites closer to Manly,  
> Brisbane than girraween.

I've seen Quail-thrush on the ridge to the north of Gold Creek Reservoir.
If you park at the top of Hillbrook Rd and go west along the dirt
road you go under high-voltage power lines after about 1km.  It was
somewhere there.  I've run through there a couple of times in recent
years when visiting Brisbane but seen them only once.  You can continue
on down to the reservoir, down Gold Creek Rd and up  Hillbrook if you
want to do a circuit.  Loads of birds when I've run it at dawn, but a
bit of ascent/descent.

Andrew