Hi Birders,
I will be flying in to Brisbane on Friday
the 3rd of January, arriving at 7:35 AM for a days clear birding before visiting
non-birding friends for the weekend then looking forward to working for a
fortnight as a nature guide at O'Reilly's.
On the 3rd I will hire a car
at the airport and then I have the following itinerary planned where I will see
the following new birds, on only my second trip to
Queensland:
Samsonvale Lake Bar-shouldered
Dove Black Falcon Channel-billed Cuckoo Forest Kingfisher Forest
Pigeon Grey Goshawk Gull-billed Tern King Quail Osprey Varied
Triller Samsonvale Cemetery Little
Bronze-cuckoo Tawny Grassbird Mt Mee State
Forest Cicadabird Dusky Honeyeater Leaden
Flycatcher Red-chested Button-quail Spectacled
Monarch Toorbul Point Broad-billed
Sandpiper Collared Kingfisher Grey-tailed Tattler Gull-billed
Tern Large Sand Plover Lesser Sand Plover Mangrove Gerygone Mangrove
Honeyeater Osprey Terek Sandpiper Tinchi
Tamba Bar-shouldered Dove Collared
Kingfisher Dollarbird Mangrove Gerygone Mangrove
Honeyeater Osprey White-breasted Woodswallow
Does this seem too
ambitious? My feeble Twitchathon attempt shows that too much ambition is a
problem that I have had to deal with before. Am I missing any bleedingly
obvious hotspots? Especially any spots where I might see any of the
following new birds mentioned in reports from the area, but a bit too far for me
to make:
Bush Hen Bush Thick-knee Cotton Pygmy-goose Dusky
Honeyeater Eastern Reef Egret Greater Sand Plover Lesser Crested
Tern Lesser Sand Plover Little Bittern Little Shrike Thrush Roseate
Tern Sooty Tern Wandering Tattler Wandering Whistling-duck
And finally would anyone like to join me, I would be happy for
the company, a navigational aid and even a assistant to decipher new waders for
me (like I have the regular Victorian ones under my belt!)
Thanks to the people who have posted trip reports to
Birding-Aus, from which I gathered this information and I look forward to
hearing from people, any comment at all welcome.
Stuart
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