Black Mountain Road, Kuranda, Far North Queensland March 31 A brief
0700-0830 walk
Cassowary male with 3 well-grown chicks, comes most days.
Wompoo Fruit-Dove 3
Superb Fruit-Dove 2 m
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot 2-3 over calling
Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher 1- migrants heading back north
again, we get them every year in late March-early April
Blue-winged Kookaburra 1, a new bird for the immediate area, and
unexpected in rainforest,
Pale-Yellow Robin pr. look to be nesting along drive way
Pied Monarch 1
Barred Cuckoo-shrike 5-6, quite a few still around
Cicadabird 1 calling, getting late for them to be still singing. This
is the rainforest taxon here with the call a bit like Shining-Bronze-
Cuckoo.
Fairy Gerygone pair
Rufous Fantail- first of the winter on 30/3
Victoria's Riflebird males have moulted and now look quite smart again!
Spotted Catbird 4
Good birding
Phil Gregory
www. cassowary-house.com.au
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