Coast Trip (January 2005)

I spent 8 days in Mollymook (Ulladulla)
from Sunday 23 January to Sunday 30 January. I undertook some limited birdwatching,
mostly in the mornings before it got too hot. I visited most sites I had
visited last 2 years ago. I have listed the highlights below:

# A 1.5m Diamond Python smack bang in
the middle of Mollymook Beach on 25 Jan!
# Southern Emu-wrens (4) had returned
to Warden's Head after the bushfire there some years ago.
# Southern Emu-wrens also at South Pacific
Heathland Reserve, Little Forest Plateau in Morton National Park and Barnunj
State Recreation Area.
# 4 Glossy Black-Cockatoos, including
1 begging young, at South Pacific Heathland Reserve.
# A dark morph Eastern Reef Egret flying
over Mollymook Beach.
# At least 3 Little Corellas in central
Ulladulla and also at Mollymook Beach.
# No less than 32 Sooty Oystercatchers
roosting together on a rock platform off Warden's Head.
# White-throated Needletails at Mollymook
Beach (40 on 26 Jan) and Warden's Head (4 on 25 Jan).
# A Buff-banded Rail in the exact same
spot as 2 years ago along the shore of Burrill Lake. It was feeding in
someones front lawn and was not as secretive as our 'local' birds.
# A Pilotbird at Pointers Gap Lookout
in Morton NP.
# A female Rose Robin, Variegated Fairy-wrens
and possibly heard a Beautiful Firetail all in Morton NP.
# A 2m Lace Monitor and a Whistling
Kite at Meroo NP.
# Black-faced Monarch, Variegated Fairy-wrens
and a Sea-Eagle at Barnunj SRA.

Cheers
Marnix

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