A relaxing weekend at Broadwater Park, approximately 45km by road from
Ingham NQ (latitude 18*30'S). Here patches of rainforest and monsoon vine
forest are protected within the "Wet Tropics" WHA and the birding is glorious.
Best birds:
orange footed scrub fowl lewins honeyeater
wompoo pigeon yellow spotted honeyeater
pale yellow robin graceful honeyeater
eastern yellow robin dusky honeyeater
grey headed robin macleays honeyeater
bowers shrike-thrush variegated triller
little shrike-thrush rufous fantail
yellow breasted boatbill northern fantail
pied monarch large billed scrub wren
spectacled monarch victoria's riflebird
The 'raptor run" to and from Ingham was quiet compared to previous weeks;
with only brown falcon, black, whistling, brahminy and black-shouldered
kites in evidence; but there was an unusually large number of blue winged
kookaburras stationed along the power lines.
Cheers
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