14.8.26
We arrived at Reflections holiday park late in the afternoon and went for a bit of a wander around the grounds. I only my 240mm lens on, so not the greatest of photos.
There was a massive flock of gang-gang cockatoos but we only actually saw these two.
We were distracted by the gang-gangs and a car coming along the road we were on, so only managed a snap of this wonga pigeon and didn't get to actually watch it
There were *heaps* of kookaburras on the grounds, we saw maybe a dozen
Some crimson rosellas
We could hear this common bronzewing hooting a long time before Stu spotted it on the ground. Dunno why they're called "common" .. they should be called rainbow pigeons or something - so pretty!
15.8.26
There's signs at the cabins asking not to feed the birds on the patios. So I went to the car parking space and the birds came down. All the birds! But mostly king parrots, sulphur crested cockatoos, three young crimson rosellas and a couple of magpies. And a mob of kangaroos.
Late morning we headed on a meandering walk north through the grounds, then along the Hume and Hovell track to Carrolls Creek.
White-winged chough
There were lots of brown thornbills. Every time we stopped to look at movement it'd be, oh, just another brown thornbill
White-browed scrub-wren
Either a juvenile or a female golden whistler
Male satin bowerbird
This Australasian darter was there for a while then took off which was pretty cool
Didn't get any good photos of the eastern spinebills
Pelican!
Little pied cormorant
We stopped for some lunch at Carrolls Creek, then turned around and headed back.
Yellow-faced honeyeater
Another brown thornbill
Scarlet robin
Grey shrike-thrush (we think)
This was a new bird for me - a spotted quail-thrush - and I was lucky to get a pretty decent photo of it
A great cormorant on the opposite bank of the inlet
Varied sitella, apparently
Male golden whistler
White-throated treecreeper
This appeared to be a hybrid black-backed and white-backed magpie
These were around the Carrolls Creek campsite
Female satin bowerbird
Pied currawong
Another hybrid magpie
And then we were back to the main resort campsite
Another new bird for me - a flame robin
White-browed scrubwren
16.8.26
Our second morning again saw flocks of king parrots and sulphur crested cockatoos come down to be fed
And a bronzewing!
There were a bunch of things we heard (or Merlin heard) that we never saw. And a few things we didn't get photos of.
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