We normally return from our visits to Lamington via Duck Ck Rd - a
"rough" unsealed route that descends from the Plateau towards
Beaudesert. As is often the case, we passed more than a dozen aspiring
4WD drivers travelling up the plateau in convoys yesterday. Of course
you don't have to be in a 4WD to traverse the road, as was demonstrated
by a "chopped" Honda Accord [probably had less than 10 cm ground
clearance] feeling its way at the halfway mark.
The thing that struck me at Green Mts this time was the tameness of
many birds - not just the parrots and turkeys round the feeders, but
also the birds well into the rainforest. There was an Eastern Whipbird
foraging in the open less than two metres from us, a Yellow-throated
Scrub-wren that hopped round our feet, a Rufous Fantail that flew past
our heads and a King Parrot that almost landed on my head - 2 km from
the feeder.
Of greater interest, I got some good photographs of a pale banded snake
that we flushed from the edge of the track - most likely a Tiger Snake
and the first pale "morph" that I've come across.
Regards, Laurie.
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