Have just completed a trip up the Pacific Highway to Coffs
Harbour/Woolgoolga, Tweed Heads and then Bundaberg, catching up with
friends and catching a few birds on the way. Bird highlights were
Yuraygir National Park, near Wilson's Point - hundreds of honeyeaters in
the flowering banksias, and a Lewin's Rail in a small patch of water
over the track.
Tirania Creek, Nightcap National Park - about 11am - male Albert's
Lyrebird about 3m from me in sunlight - super view and then disturbed by
two chattering young men who came bounding up the track. Also Pale
Yellow Robin, Brush Cuckoo and Russet-tailed Thrush.
Note the Big Scrub Loop at Nightcap is presently closed to vehicles -
Logrunners at the entry.
Rocky Creek Dam, Murwillumbah - excellent boardwalk around the back of
the dam wall, with Little Shrike-thrush, more Logrunners, Wonga, Brown
and White-headed Pigeons and Figbirds feeding on figs.
Byron Bay Lighthouse Palm Valley - Regent Bowerbird
Bundaberg, Qld - at Trevor and Annie Quested's house - a pair of Bush
Stone-curlews in their garden.
And then birding with Trevor - we totalled 124 species in two days.
Inskip Point, Qld - 3 Black-breasted Button-quail - a female at 3 in the
afternoon and a juvenile and male 7am the following morning just as the
rain started, and it didn't stop for the next 18 hours. It was so gloomy
in the camping area I could hear Rose-crowned Fruitdoves over my tent
early morning but no hope of a sighting.
And then abandoned all hope of further birding and drove home in the rain.
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