Fraser Island Bird Week - Day 5 - Last Day
For today's activities all the guests were invited on a Hervey Bay excursion
which stopped at a local bird hide, a large private property with some large
lagoons and a public park called Arkarra Lagoons. All of which are very
popular birding locations and well known to us local Hervey Bay birders.
I passed on the Bird Hide and so missed out on many waders, instead myself
and a few more dedicated local bird club members stood out in the rain at
Garnets Lagoons waiting for the Kingfisher Bay bus to drop off the groups
(fortunately the rain cleared by the time they turned up). These lagoons
are a fantastic location for birds (it's not unusual to count swans, ducks
and Pelicans in the hundreds). The list of sightings for the morning
included -
Masked Lapwings
White Ibis
Straw necked Ibis
Glossy Black Ibis
Black winged Stilts
Red Kneed Dotterels
Willy Wagtails
Common Starlings
Black Swans
Pelicans
Little Pied Cormorants
Little Black Cormorants
Darters
Australasian Grebes
Hardheads
Grey Teal (Yet another new bird for me)
Australian Shoveler (more new ones for me!)
Nankeen Kestrel
Richards Pipit
Golden headed Cisticolla
Red Necked Avocets (Keep those new birds coming!)
Gull Billed Terns
Great Egrets
Cattle Egrets
Little Egrets
Sharp Tailed Sandpipers
Royal Spoonbill
Australasian Bittern (new to me!)
Welcome Swallow
Tree Martin
Purple Swamphens
Comb Crested Jacanas
Magpie
Magpie Lark
Swamp Harrier
Whistling Kite
And that was just at one of the lagoons, there are 3 other lagoons that we
didn't get to take the groups as we were running out of time.
After some well earned coffee and morning tea the whole group was driven to
Arkarra Lagoons which is about 10mins drive from Hervey Bay. At this
location we ticked off -
Little Friarbird
Pacific Black Duck
Hardheads
Australasian Grebes
Dusky Moorhen
Coots
Purple Swamphens
Brown Honeyeaters
Plumed Whistling Ducks
Swans
Little black cormorants
Leaden Flycatchers
Grey Fantail
Varied Triller
Royal Spoonbills
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Rainbow Lorikeets
Scaly Breasted Lorikeets
Rufus Whistlers
Lewins Honeyeaters
Blue Faced Honeyeaters
So there we have it, the Fraser Island Bird Week in review.
I certainly enjoyed the week, what could be better than 5 straight days of
birding! The activities were interesting & fun, I met some great people and
I managed to add 15 new birds to my list.
Unfortunately it was back to work for me then (the only birds I see at work
are the ones I drew on the whiteboard in my office). At least I have my
trip to the Bunya Mountains in a week.
Thanks
Lee
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