Kimberley Coastal Camp WA

[Frank O'Connor <>]

Kimberley Coastal Camp

Is anyone interested in birding for 5 days at the Kimberley Coastal
Camp on the coast opposite Point Walsh just east of the Mitchell
Plateau?  I am happy to organise the trip (all costs shared) if four
or five people are interested.  The trip would begin and end in
Kununurra.  We fly to and from the KCC by seaplane.  I would
prefer the trip to be in early October when most of the migrants have
arrived, but the weather will be hot.  You need to be reasonably fit
as the going in the vine thickets and some of the sandstone areas is hard
going.

I have been to the KCC once and the birding was sensational.  I saw
all the northern mangrove specialties such as Chestnut Rail, Grey
Goshawk, Little Bronze-Cuckoo, Shining Flycatcher, Lemon-bellied
(Kimberley) Flycatcher, Mangrove Robin, Large-billed Gerygone, etc. 
There are a number of remnant vine thickets and rainforest where I saw
Rufous Owl, Rainbow Pitta, Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Rufous Fantail,
Green-backed Gerygone, Little Shrike-thrush, Varied Triller, etc. 
Other birds seen included Great-billed Heron, Pied Imperial-Pigeon,
White-lined Honeyeater, Beach Stone-curlew, etc.  And the mammals,
fishing and Liz's cooking are exceptional too.

I would be happy to stay on for a few more days in Kununurra to show you
birds in the Kununurra / Wyndham area if you cover my costs.  If you
are interested, then please contact Frank O'Connor at
 or (08) 9386 5694.

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Frank O'Connor     Birding WA http://members.iinet.net.au/~foconnor

Phone : (08) 9386
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