Logrunner
We saw lots of these, pairs, mostly, and a few juveniles. They’re very quick, and always in amongst the scrub, so hard to photograph.
Tagged: O’Reilly’s
Brown Gerygone
Gerygones are Australian Warblers. I’d always said “JerryGone”, but we heard one of the rangers say Djer-ig-gonee. But then we heard more people saying jerrygone, so I’m sticking with jerrygone. I also heard someone...
Bassian Thrush
These are apparently really hard to spot, but after the first time, we found them relatively easy and found quite a few. I included one of the “hard-to-see” shots so you can tell why...
Regent Bowerbird
I had hoped to see a Regent Bowerbird, and I did! It was a female though, instead of the striking black and yellow male. But she’s still beautiful, and she’s still a Regent Bowerbird!
Lewin’s Honeyeater
There were a few of these around the buildings, as well as in the rainforest. They’re lovely little birds, and their song is gorgeous too! One of these came to the cafe to check...
White-browed Scrubwren, buff-breasted form.
The black eye-stripe extends back as long as the white brow. In the plain white-browed scrubwren it only goes as far as the eye.
Eastern Yellow Robin
Not at all shy, they posed and sang to us. The bird walk man feeds them raw walnuts, so they’re obviously looking for more.
Eastern Whipbird
It was amazing, once we’d seen our first Whipbird, just how many of them we saw. Make’s you wonder why we ever thought they were hard to see!
Eastern Spinebill
Gorgeous little birds, who were often hanging around the grevilleas and bottlebrushes near the bird feeding area.