445) Yellow-browed Scrubwren
yellow throated scrubwren maybe???
445) Yellow-browed Scrubwren
yellow throated scrubwren maybe???
So far have had two days in Lamington National Park as I arrived fairly early yesterday morning. The accommodation where I am staying (O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat) has bird/wildlife guides who have been great for giving advice on where to see things and what things are.
424) Magpie Goose (saw these in Currumbin and thought they were captive, but I now think they may have been wild after seeing loads in fields on the drive up)
425) Spangled Drongo
426) Red-browed Finch
427) Lewin's Honeyeater
428) Eastern Yellow Robin
429) White-headed Pigeon
430) Regent Bowerbird
431) King Parrot
432) Eastern Spinebill
434) Logrunner
435) Eastern Whipbird
436) White-browed Scrubwren
437) Crimson Rosella
438) White-throated Treecreeper
439) Brown Thornbill
440) Large-billed Scrubwren
441) Brown Gerygone
442) Green Catbird
443) Albert's Lyrebird (so far only one very poor view deep in the dense vegatation, a good view and maybe a picture is (one of) tomorrow's main target)
444) Russet-tailed Thrush
445) Yellow-browed Scrubwren
446) Grey Shrike-thrush
447) Satin Bowerbird
448) Superb Fairy-wren
449) Paradise Riflebird
450) Rufous Scrub-bird
451) Topknot Pigeon
452) Fan-tailed Cuckoo
453) Pale-yellow Robin
455) Grey Goshawk
456) Southern Boobook
42) Red-necked Pademelon
43) Red-legged Pademelon
44) Common Ringtail Possum
45) Short-eared Brushtail Possum (both the all-black and grey with yellow belly forms, I thought these would be much more difficult to find but they feed them at O'Reilly's!)
46) Brown Antechinus
47) Long-nosed Bandicoot
48) White-striped Freetail Bat
I have one more full day in Lamington tomorrow and I leave to go to Brisbane the morning of the next day. Not sure how many more new additions I will get though, as I have already got most of the stuff I was hoping for!The wildlife guides have proved very useful. I have lots of pictures but I will probably not upload any until I get back to Perth.
Stealing food from some pheasants (24/4/2016):
5. Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus
Not a huge number more for today but got some nice views of species I had already seen and I was pleased at managing to get a photograph of a riflebird. Saw the lyrebird in the distance again but no good view or pictures, I did get a few more species by venturing out of the rainforest a bit and walking to some of the eucalyptus forest.
457) Bassian thrush
458) White-naped Honeyeater
459) Yellow-faced Honeyeater
460) Striated Thornbill
49) Whiptail Wallaby
I am going to Brisbane tomorrow morning but I may get a few new additions from Lamington spotlighting later tonight or on an early morning bird walk.
An early start this morning gave me another unusual inland year tick
196. Great Skua
342. Variable sunbird
343. Red-collared widowbird
344. Harlequin quail
345. Somali crow
346. Rueppels robin-chat
347. White-rumped babbler
348. Black-crowned tschagra
349. Blue-spotted wood dove
350. White-winged cliff chat
351. Blue-breasted bee-eater
Mammals:
46. Abyssinian rock hyrax
Now I started working in the Ethiopian highlands, I am finally able to add some of the Ethiopian endemics![]()
I am having a bad spell of dipping lately again missing a Great Knot this morning however I'm hoping I've broken the run of bad luck finally getting another lifetick this afternoon.
197. little Tern
198. Caspian Tern
Nothing new from this morning or yesterday evening from Lamington but additions from the journey down to Brisbane:
461) Brown Quail
462) White-faced Heron
And a visit to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens this afternoon only added one species, however it was the main one I was looking for and I saw 14 of them just sitting under trees on the lawn!
463) Bush Stone-curlew
Very pleasant day tramping around the Wyre Forest with robmv yesterday,
Congrats on Wood Warbler- charming little bird and increasingly hard to find nowadays.
Do you see any of the Long-haired Fallow Deer in Wyre Forest, or is it only the Mortimer Forest they are found in?.
A last update from Ethiopia, now 1 day in Nairobi and then a month in Europe.
Eastern highlands
352. Reichenow’s seedeater
353. Thick-billed raven
354. Abyssinian slaty flycatcher
355. Banded barbet
356. Little rock trush
357. Groundscraper trush
358. Wattled ibis
Eastern highlands - Addis
359. Rueppels vulture
Hotel garden Addis
360. Brown parisoma
361. White-winged black tit
362. Black-winged lovebird
363. Abyssinian woodpecker
I spent quite some time in the hotel garden to look for the lovebird and the woodpecker, which are regularly seen, but I failed to find both up to 1 hour before departure, when I saw both within 1 minute....
A long awaited lifer, seen right by my house.
Mammals
13) Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
~Thylo![]()
Final update from Africa for now
364. Montane nightjar
I expect my next new bird to be European swift, let's see tomorrow morning whether I am right...
One addition from the Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane this evening
464) Figbird
Going to Cairns tomorrow.
Congrats on Wood Warbler- charming little bird and increasingly hard to find nowadays.
Do you see any of the Long-haired Fallow Deer in Wyre Forest, or is it only the Mortimer Forest they are found in?.