South Coast - 18/19 April

Hi Trevor,

There are too many places to mention.
Some places of interest in my opinion are:

# Eden Harbour & Twofold Bay
# Wallaga Lake and Beach
# Narooma Boardwalk & Harbour (for
Bellbirds)
# Moruya Heads & Congo (for shorebirds
in Sep-Oct)
# Durras/Murramarang National Park (for
rainforest)

I suggest a Google search on the above
will provide more detail. Others will be able to add to this list.

In regards to Mogo Zoo I suggest checking
out their website http://www.mogozoo.com.au
for details. They only house exotic animals.

Cheers
Marnix

Trevor Hampel <>

20/04/2006 12:30 PM

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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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