A few of us started the day with another 6 am walk where we got a bit wet and got another view of some of the usual birds here.
The grevilleas were looking beautiful still
After breakfast we headed down the hill again. As we met out the front the king parrots were coming in and randomly landing on people.
Today we were heading for the lower end of the Albert River catchment (Tamborine, Eagleby, Oxenford and Coombabah). A short stop at a local park for a loo stop and we started spotting birds
This continued on when we pulled off to let traffic pass on the highway and started spotting various water birds, so took a bit longer and spotted a few more.
Another site yielded more including an excellent look at a blue faced honeyeater-sadly the camera stuffed up at the crucial time.
Jacana at the next stop with their amazing ability to walk on the surface of the water. And a big flock of glossy ibis. Also saw white necked ibis and white headed ibis here.
We stopped at the Eagleby wetlands after lunch, where we spotted a couple of different kingfishers, a pale headed rosella and an unusual Orchid which grows on the paperbacks there. No flowers but heaps of strappy leaves.
We drove on to a couple more wetland areas. One of these is the proposed site for a future freeway
and we had a little concert performed by a golden headed Cisticola
who just loved putting on a show. A mistletoe bird
and lady Wren
were also happy to be friendly close in while the water birds did their thing in the distance.
Today Duncan ( our guide and driver) also brought the scope with him so that he could bring those birds up even more clearly for us, which was great
Then we started back on our long journey home up the mountain for our last night.
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