Hi there Marnix and other birders,
My wife and I are planning a holiday later in the year, possibly
Oct-Sep, mainly following the coast from SA through to Sydney. We may
have limited time in the areas you mention. Are there some high priority
or must see areas along the south coast?
I have vague recollections of the area from a visit there about 25 years
ago. I have an interest in birds and my wife is into native plants.
Is Mogo Zoo worth a visit?
Trevor Hampel
Murray Bridge SA
http://www.trevorsbirding.com/
wrote:
We spent two days in the Tomakin area on the South Coast after Easter.
Birding highlights were:
# Seeing a *Powerful Owl* along Dunns Creek Road in Mogo SF while
looking unsuccessfully for Yellow-bellied Gliders.
# 2 *Bassian Thrushes* at Eurobodalla Regional Botanical Gardens.
# An *Intermediate Egret* in the Tomaga River Estuary.
# A *Cicadabird* heard calling on the edge of Tomakin.
# *Sooty Oystercatchers* at Rosedale Beach and Tomaga River Estuary.
# 3 *Black-fronted Dotterels* among the many waterbirds at the slowly
drying 'Barlings Swamp' on Bevian Rd. Also a very black-shelled turtle
on a bank.
# A *Peregrine Falcon* hunting over the Shoalhaven River at Warri Reserve.
# A flock of over 600 *Sulphur-crested Cockatoos* feeding in fields
before Braidwood.
# A possible *Little Eagle* soaring over grassland behind Barlings Beach.
# 10 *Eastern Curlews* and 8 *Bar-tailed Godwits* at the Batemans Bay
Marina.
But most interesting to me was watching an (immature?) *Eastern
Whipbird* foraging among dense bamboo alongside and inside the Tiger
enclosure at Mogo Zoo just one metre away.
Unfortunately the Batemans Bay Water Gardens have almost completely
dried up with a half-dead eel? flopping about in the remaining puddle of
mud.
Cheers
Marnix
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