Hi All,
Thanks to all those who responded to my RFI on Alice Springs. We have just
spent six days up there and it was wonderful because they have had so much
rain. The desert is lush with eremophilas in bloom, attracting flocks of Pied
Honeyeaters and there are budgies swarming over the grassy plains. The whole
area is filled with their chattering. To see them flying in flocks to roost is
a brilliant spectacle.
The only bird we missed was the Grey Honeyeater and even that had been seen in
the Botanical Gardens by others during our stay. That is a great place to go to
see the Western Bowerbird, where we saw three intermittently squabbling and
building the bower.
Below is a list of some of the other birds we saw
Grey-headed HEs [everywhere]
Budgies
Cockatiels [two flocks flying over]
Slaty-backed Thornbills [Kunoth Bore]
Black-eared Cuckoo [near Fish Hole]
Dusky Grasswren
Rufous-crowned Emu-wren [on the Santa Teresa road where the spinifex habitat
starts]
Spinifexbird [on the road to Arltunga]
Red-backed Kingfisher
Painted Finch [halfway up Mount Gillen]
Spinifex Pigeons [ Arltunga, but these were more difficult than we had
expected. We couldn't find a single one in the West MacDonnells]
Diamond Doves
Major Mitchell Cockatoo [ on the road just past Honeymoon Gap]
Red-browed Pardalote
Crimson Chats
White-winged Triller
Little Button-Quail
Alana
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