On a beautiful early winter morning, 21 Nats met at Pine Mountain Bush
Reserve Blacksoil, after some car-pooling at Neil Street car park. The Reserve
is a small area of dry rainforest, gum trees, wattles and an under-storey of
various vegetation. We noted quite an area near the entrance of the Reserve
with small mother-of-million plants growing. Lovely spotted gums had
interesting arthropods under the bark. The Reserve straddles a lovely creek
with some small waterholes and birdlife was very active due to the cool
temperature. Birdos had a lovely time identifying and listing the birds
sighted. We had our smoko before setting off to our next stop.
After a beautiful drive along the Brisbane Valley Highway, through
Fernvale, a market town in full swing with the usual weekly markets and a Food
Fair as well, we arrived at Cormorant Bay on Wivenhoe Dam. We set off for a
lovely walk, on a good track around the Dam. This walk was through very
different country, very poor sandstone soils supporting gum and wattle trees
with very open understorey. A small stand of scrub figs, Ficus rubiginosa
was spotted, in fruit, with unidentified birds feeding.
There was some action on the water. A good deal of time was spent, by a
group of birdos, trying to identify a large group of water birds following a
couple of pelicans. Jean Gundry finally photographed one and it was decided to
be a Crested Grebe. These grebes appeared to be hoping for pelican left-overs. This
was our very good lunch stop, with the whole group sitting around in a circle,
talking about how we had enjoyed our morning and what we had seen on our walks.
All in all a great day with a great group of Nats.
(Report by Julie Latham)
Bird Lists (Compiled by Ann & Allan Parry)
Pine mountain
Bush reserve
Little Friarbird, Silvereye, Grey Fantail, Rainbow Bee-eater, Yellow Faced
Honeyeater, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Striped Honeyeater, Bar-shouldered
Dove, Rainbow Lorikeet, Red-browed Finch, Bell Miner, Torresian Crow, Striated Pardalote, Olive-backed Oriole,
Little Lorikeet, Peaceful Dove, Fuscous Honeyeater, Spotted Pardalote, Peaceful Dove, Noisy Miner, Currawong,
Grey Butcherbird, Lewins Honeyeater, Variegated Fairy-wren, Scrub Turkeys Nest (25 species).
Wivenhoe Dam
Great Crested Grebe, Pied Cormorant, Hard Head, White-naped Honeyeater, Pelican, Golden
Whistler (Female), Brahminy Kite, Darter, Scarlet Honeyeater, Silver Gull, Rose Robin, White-faced
Heron, Black-backed Magpie, Grey Butcherbird. (14 species).
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