Lake Barrine – WanderingEagles – Travel & Nature Photography

Featured Image : Rufous Fantail

Certainly a prize bird for this region

Victoria’s Riflebird

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Press Play to View a snippet of our day at Lake Barrine

Tick tock tick tock……how time flies. It’s hard to believe another week plus has flown by so quickly.

We have been out and about pretty much every day. We keep doing the rounds of all our little hotspots, which is fantastic fun though some places have their little pitfalls.

Like Lake Barrine…..every time we visit, which is very often, we can’t pass up the award winning scones 🙄🙄 which is usually in the morning.

One day it took us around 4 hours to walk the 5 km circuit around the lake so of course we had to have lunch there as well.

So we are putting on some weight but figure when we get back to work on our shaking cherry pickers in Stanthorpe it will all miraculously melt away again.

Just love the bright yellow plumage of the Northern Male Figbird

0T2A9090 — I can never resist photographing a Pale-Yellow Robin

The weather hasn’t been the best really.

We had some hot days last week and all the birds and bugs seemed to be more abundant and then the weather turned back to almost wintery conditions.

I had to have my jumper on the last few days in the rainforests…..very chilly.

I don’t think the birds like it much either. This morning it’s drizzling so hopefully the sun pops out a bit later.

0T2A8769 2 — The Peircing stare of a Spangled Drongo

Press Play to view a short snippet of Hasties Swamp, Atherton

Pied Cormorant & Plumed Egret

Plumed Egret & Whistling Ducks

Plumed Egret and Friends

We are trying our best to get more photos and video of the male Victoria’s Riflebird.

He is just amazing to watch when he starts displaying.

We found a great broken tree stump in the Wongabel Forest with the male sitting on top.

He did start to display a little, a female did come through and he took off after her but did stay in the area so we are keen to go back when the sun comes out and try again for some Wow pics and video.

Pied Monarch

Spotted Catbird

Wompoo Fruitdove

Brown Cuckoo-dove

More Rainforest Birds

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Curtain Fig Tree

and

Wongabel State Forest

We are coming up to our last weekend in this area so will have to start heading south again next week, but there will be plenty of nature stops along the way. Enjoy all the pics and videos.

Cheers Steph and Anthony.

0T2A9514 — A not so nervous Yellow-footed Antechinus on the track at Lake Eacham

Portrait of a Bush Stone-Curlew — Curly’s (Bush Stone-curlew) can always be seen and heard in Yungaburra

Hello again from Yungaburra, things have been going well despite the weather not being the best. It’s been really really windy and showery but when the sun pops out occasionally it’s just fantastic, especially when Anthony’s camera is focused on a dragonfly or Butterfly.

We did have one clear morning where Anthony raced down to the waterfront of Lake Tinaroo ( almost on our doorstep ) to get some beautiful photos of the lake, nice and calm and some morning mist. This really is a beautiful place to hang out as you can see.

Lake Tinaroo

We have had a few outings too, yesterday we drove past Mareeba to the Wetlands which to our dismay are now permanently closed.

We then backtracked to Granite Gorge Nature Park which is always nice rock hopping and looking for dragonflies. We saw an echidna here too but couldn’t get a good photo as he saw us too and tried to squish himself under a rock, so we gave him some space and let him be.

Granite Gorge

These Squatter Pigeon’s are almost tame at Granite Gorge

Yes we have Dragonflies

I’ve been deprived of seeing my favorite Insects for some time now.

These critters put a huge grin on my face 🙂

Elusive Archtail Dragonfly

Orange Threadtail Damselfly

Red-tipped Shadeflies

Female Tropical Rockmaster Damselfly

(faded) Tropical Rockmaster Damselfly

Female Scarlet Percher

and Butterflies

0T2A5249 — Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly

Crater Lakes Barrine and Eacham

Lake Barinne Tea House — Lake Barrine and Teahouse

We also visited the two amazing volcanic lakes just up the road from Yungaburra, You can walk around both but we had Devonshire teas ( award winning) at Lake Barrine. Then onto Lake Eacham, which we did walk around.

These are great places to see the Victoria’s rifle bird, we heard them a few times but no luck for photos. Another elusive bird we are chasing is the Pied Monarch, such a gorgeous little bird that we have spotted a few times but never get a photo. We passed another photographer at Lake Eacham who proudly showed us a great photo he just got of the Monarch…..just around the next bend……🤨🤨 but no such luck for us.