Well the last blog seems like ages ago and we really haven’t done much. The weather did turn nasty so we have been making our way slowly north but of course travelling on the Bruce Highway is very busy and pretty much featureless if you ask me. Maybe the inland roads would be a better way for us to go🙄🙄
“Gotta Scratch” Rainbow Bee-eaters.
Male Leaden Flycatcher
Female Leaden Flycatcher
We are now just north of Townsville at Bluewater and even though it was raining yesterday morning we decided to drive back past the city and check out The Townsville Common.
The rain did stop and the sun did poke out enough to get some fantastic bird photos. It’s a great place where you could really walk your socks off……plenty of wetlands, saw an osprey nest and a sea eagle nest plus lots of different birds. Mostly they were in the tops of the trees so Anthony missed out on a lot of photos too. I’m sure the bird species list would be quite impressive for this area.
Had a great day, athough the drive is an hour one way from out here.
Maybe next time we could find a van park closer.
Alway exciting to see a Black-necked Stork (Jabiru)
White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
Brown-backed Honeyeater
The van park here also has a little creek with paperbarks, pandanus trees etc, very picturesque and we have spotted a few birds and bugs around too. There always generally is something to get a photo off when in these little pockets of nature.
Forrest Kingfisher checking us out
Male Darter Drying out
Rainbow Bee-eater
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Great Bowerbird in Song
Slender Skimmer Dragonly
Female Palemouth Dragonfly
Female Chalky Percher
An Immature Chalky Percher Dragonfly
Tomorrow…..fingers crossed…..we will drive up the range to Paluma. A beautiful spot too but the weather doesn’t look promising but will give it a go.
