Hello Lorna
Your memory is excellent, I did have a trip with Klaus in December and it
was very successful. Before starting with him I had a week up at Kingfisher
Park on the Tablelands where I was hoping to find four birds, Blueheaded
Parrotfinch, Noisy Pitta, Pied Monarch Flycatcher and Bushhen. I'm happy to
say I found all of them! There were Noisy Pittas everywhere, in fact , at
one time I counted five birds from the one position. They were waking me by
calling just outside my window. Coincidentally, here I met the chap who was
to be my partner with Klaus, a Yorkshireman named Chris. Hall who since the
death of his wife a year ago, has continually travelled the world finding
birds. We got along very well together, he was a good companion and a
knowledgeable birdo.
We flew from Cairns to Coen and thence to Lockhart River Mission where Klaus
met us and took us about forty kms north to our base in a superb tropical
house on a hillside overlooking the Coral Sea at Portland Roads on Cape
Weymouth. From here he took us by 4x4 to the various birding spots in the
rain forest ,the adjacent sclerophyll woodland or to the foreshore and
wetland at Chilli Beach. From here we were also driven several hundred yards
away to the home of Sandra,who prepared and served memorable dinners.
When I say "memorable", I still think of them with pleasure.
The weather was hot and dry which was a good excuse for relaxing in the airy
living room enjoying the panoramic view , the pleasant company and one or
two cool VB's.
The party consisted of a couple from Germany, here to photograph Palm
Cockatoos (they got some excellent shots), a husband and wife from
Toowoomba, Qld.,Chris from the UK and myself from NSW We found all the wet
season migrants particularly the Redbellied Pitta and of the birds which I
particularly wished to find I only failed on two species namely Mangrove
Robin and Spotted Whistling Duck. These latter birds had apparently left the
rapidly drying swamp at the back of Chilli Beach where they were usually to
be found.
The birds seen were as follow:
Orangefooted Scrubfowl
Brush Turkey
Great Frigatebird
Darter
Magpie Goose
Pacific Black Duck
Banded Rail
Bushhen
Whitefaced Heron
Great Egret
Intermediate Egret
Nankeen Night Heron
Black Bittern
Aust. White Ibis
Royal Ibis
Greytailed Tattler
Common Sandpiper
Terek Sandpiper
Bartailed Godwit
Sharptailed Sandpiper
Rednecked Stint
Masked Lapwing
Pacific Golden Plover
Lesser Sandplover
Greater Sandplover
Redcapped Plover
Silver Gull
Gullbilled Tern
Blacknaped Tern
Bridled Tern
Little Tern
Crested Tern
Lesser Crested Tern
Common Noddy
Black Noddy
Whitebellied Seaeagle
Brown Goshawk
Grey Goshawk
Brown Falcon
Superb Fruit Dove
Rosecrowned Fruit Dove
Wompoo Fruip Dove
Brown Cuckoo Dove
Peacefull Dove
Barshouldered Dove
Emerald Dove
Palm Cockatoo
Sulphurcrested Cockatoo
Eclectus Parrot
Redcheeked parrot
Rainbow Lorikeet
Doubleeyed Figparrot
Oriental Cuckoo
Brush Cuckoo
Chestnutbreasted Cuckoo
Little Bronze Cuckoo
Goulds Bronze Cuckoo
Pheasant Coucal
Papuan Frogmouth
Marbled Frogmouth
Largetailed Nightjar
Whiterumped Swiftlet
Forktailed Swift
Azure Kingfisher
Bluewinged Kingfisher
Collared Kingfisher
Yellowbilled Kingfisher
Buffbreasted Kingfisher
Rainbow Beeeater
Dollarbird
Redbellied Pitta
Noisy Pitta
Lovely Fairywren
Tropical Scrubwren
Fairy Gerygone
Largebilled Gerygone
Helmeted Friarbird
Silvercrowned Friarbird
Tawneybreasted Honeyeater
Yellowspotted Honeyeater
Graceful Honeyeater
Varied Honeyeater
Whitethroated Honeyeater
Greenbacked Honeyeater
Brownbacked Honeyeater
Dusky Honeyeater
Yellowlegged Flycatcher
Northern Scrubrobin
Whitefaced Robin
Whitebrowed Robin
Little Shrikethrush
Northern Fantail
Rufous Fantail
Leaden Flycatcher
Shining Flycatcher
Yellowbreasted Boatbill Flycatcher
Blackwinged Monarch Flycatcher
Spectacled Monarch Flycatcher
Magpie Lark
Spangled Drongo
Yellow Oriole
Figbird
Magnificent Riflebird
Trumpet Manucode
Fawnbreasted Bowerbird
Blackfaced Cuckooshrike
Whitebellied Cuckooshrike
Varied Triller
Whitebreasted Woodswallow
Black Butcherbird
Redbrowed Finch
Yellowbellied Sunbird
Mistletoe Bird
Metallic Starling
Reg
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