Coast and ID please

[Julian Robinson <>]

Did some birding during a week at Mossy Point and surrounds and (as 
happens with us newer hands) a few lifers for me.  My two discoveries 
were the Eurobodalla Botanic Gardens, a must-visit place, and Coila 
Ck - thanks to Rod.
At the Bot Gdns :
- Black-faced Monarch
- Bassian Thrush
- Rufous Fantail (lots of them, even got a photo)
- Brown Gerygones nesting - feeding nestlings
- my mystery bird which I'm after some help identifying (at the bottom of this)
- Leaden Flycatcher
- many Jacky Winters (listed on their list as a winter bird for them)
- Fantail and maybe Brush Cuckoo immatures
- Whipbird, Oriole, YFHE, Lewins HE, etc

At Coila Ck and around Mossy Point :
- many Azure Kingfishers
- Nankeen Night Heron immature (I think - have photos but I'm thrown 
by green legs)
- Striated Heron
- Crested Shrike-tits, Rufous and Golden Whistlers, Thornbills, 
Red-brow Finches, FT Cuckoo immatures, I reckon a Pilotbird but I 
wouldn't really know (all brown, bigger than a rock warbler, 
fleeting, stayed low), Yellow Robins, Grey Fantail all occurred 
together in a small inlet near the top of Coila Ck, just as Rod described
- Sea-eagles adult (and immature once) patrolling above the headland 
every evening and (also as Rod mentioned) looking spectacular in the 
narrow confines of Coila Ck
- Rainbow Lorikeet, King Parrot, SC Cockatoo, YT Black Cockatoo, 
Galah, Rosellas at Mossy Pt
Pics of some including Az Kingfisher, BF Monarch and B Gerygone and 
nest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozjulian/
I'd be grateful for help on the attached bird that was at the Bot 
Gardens - I really have no idea.  I got the impression it was small 
but it may have been larger I guess up to Robin or Whistler size. 
Basically grey all over with greenish-yellow in the wing and a tuft 
of white near the shoulder. Legs were grey or reddish depending on 
the light (see photo) and eye was dark reddish.  It perched briefly 
outside the bird-hide then I found it later  feeding on insects in 
bark at head height.
Julian

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