Hi Jeremy, I would say your best bet for Little Kingfishers is Yellow
Waters, though Howard Springs can sometimes be good. Do the cruise if
you can at YW as this will give you your best shot, and also a chance
at Black Bittern and Great-billed Heron. If you want the Grasswren
you will need to be quite prepared, with lots of water and information
on where to go. It can be easy to get lost and dehydrated up there so
make sure you plan carefully. Finally, my experience with the Rufous
Owls is that they can be easy sometimes, and impossible others. It
highly depends on which trees they pick to roost in along the
rainforest walk. I would say it is worth a go though.
Regards,
Chris
Ps. Sorry about the truncated email earlier, a careless slip of the
finger!
Sent from my iPhone
On 19/05/2010, at 8:55 PM, Jeremy Weiss <>
wrote:
Hello,
First I want to thank everyone for the great advice I got for my
trip to
North Queensland at the end of February. Easily the best trip of my
life,
photographing Azure Kingfishers along the Daintree river was
incredible.
Now I'm going to be in the Northern Territory in June from the
afternoon of
the 13th to the morning of the 19th. I thought I'd get some feedback
on
locations and where to see birds.
My main target is the Little Kingfisher which I managed to miss
while in
Queensland :/
Right now the plan is to spend:
Sunday night in Darwin
Monday morning looking around Howard Springs then exploring the
Darwin area,
maybe going to Buffalo Creek.
Then on to Jabiru, arriving there Monday night.
Spend Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night in Jabiru
Spend Thursday and Friday nights at Eden near Fogg Dam, leaving
Darwin early
Saturday morning.
I just wanted to make sure of a few things before locking it down.
First, is the Rufous Owl in the Darwin Botanical Gardens fairly easy
to
find?
It's the main reason for the first night in Darwin otherwise I would
go
straight to Jabiru and just see Howard Springs on the Friday.
Also I don't really know that much about the Kakadu area, is it best
just to
take random walks in the area? I was thinking of visiting Gunlom
falls,
maybe looking for the White-throated Grasswren but if there aren't
many
other birds in that area I might skip it.
Next, what's the best place for Little and Azure Kingfishers? I've
read some
trip reports and Fogg Dam and Howard Springs both seem to have them,
just
wondering how likely I am to find them in either spot.
And finally is the Yellow Waters river cruise worth taking? Again
mainly got
Kignfishers on the brain :P
Thanks for any advice, I know I'm asking a lot but the North
Queensland trip
was so good, it set the bar pretty high for me :)
Regards,
Jeremy
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