Following yesterday's footy result, Dave Faunce and I went on a bushwalk around
the front end of Ballow [a couple of kays north of the NSW border in the Mt
Barney Nat Park]. We did a circuit via Mowburra, Cedar Pass and Montserrat
Lookout. Birding highlights for the day:
* My first black faced monarch for the season
* Another showing by the local glossy black cockatoo clan
* A female paradise riflebird doing a spot of needlepoint
* A peregrine falcon ripping though the air above our heads [we could hear the
sound of its wings cutting through the air at 100 metres]
* A large flock of woodswallows passing above Mowburra [ie at 1200 metres
altitude and too far above to identify them given the light conditions - though
they did sound like a flock of sparrows or something else subliminally familiar]
* An albert's lyrebird scratching about near the summit of Durramlee - its
scratching was about as noisy as a novice bushwalker blundering about.
Quite a few orchids flowering nicely as well.
Regards, Laurie.
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