Tour de Mulligans-Goorooyarroo

I went for a 3-hour bike tour of Mulligans
Flat and Goorooyarroo Woodland Reserves on Sunday morning. The following
were highlights in the over 40 species seen/heard:

Mulligans Flat
- Far east of the reserve by a dam were
1 male Crested Shrike-tit, 3 Sacred Kingfishers (inc juvenile),
3 White-winged Trillers (inc 2 begging juveniles), Mistletoebird,
immature Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, Common Bronzewing.
- On the first dam near the car park
were 5 Australasian Grebes (inc 4 young).
- Some 200m from the car park were a
Grey Butcherbird, a Leaden Flycatcher, 2 Sacred Kingfishers,
6 Varied Sittellas and a Little Friarbird in eucalypt blossoms,
also a Jacky Lizard. I could hear a Pallid Cuckoo calling from a
nearby field (I have not heard or seen this species all summer???)
- By the large dam were a male and female
Superb Parrots and a Shingleback Skink.

Goorooyarroo
- In the far north of the reserve in
excellent grassy woodland were 3 Hooded Robins (inc 1 juvenile =
a successful breeding), 4 Speckled Warblers, a male Leaden Flycatcher
and an Echidna. Nearby I watched a Spider Wasp dragging a large
spider twice its size to its lair. There werent a lot of birds at Dunnarts
Flat or along McKeahnie's Track.

The most common honeyeater was easily
the Brown-headed Honeyeater, with 5 separate flocks heard. Both
species of Gerygone were common and vocal.

Cheers
Marnix

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