Sunday, January 15, 2006

Honeymoon Highlights

In order of appearance ...
  1. House Sparrow
  2. Little Raven
  3. Black Falcon (perched high in dead tree over grassy field - just before Ararat)
  4. Eastern Spinebill (up close and personal on Grampians Walk)
  5. Crimson Rosellas (pair)
  6. Gang Gangs (group of three - one juvenile)
  7. White Winged Choughs (on Henty Hwy just out of Dunkeld)
  8. Willie Wagtail
  9. Long Billed Corella
  10. Eastern Yellow Robin
  11. Starlings (ugly little rats)
  12. Ravens
  13. Kookaburra
  14. Superb Fairy Wrens
  15. Magpie (Race Leuconota)
  16. Yellow Tailed Cockatoo (Road into Dunkeld)
  17. Straw Necked Ibis
  18. Nankeen Kestral
  19. Shelduck
  20. Pelican
  21. Black Swan
  22. Great Comerant
  23. Masked Lapwing
  24. Magpie Lark
  25. Pidgeon
  26. Galah
  27. Brown Falcon
  28. Welcome Swallow
  29. Grey Strike Thrush
  30. Yellow Faced Honeyeater
  31. White Eared Honeater
  32. Pacific Black Duck
  33. Eurasian Coot
  34. Purple Swamphen
  35. Blue-Billed Duck
  36. White Naped Honeyeater
  37. Pied Commerant
  38. Whitebacked Swallow
  39. Eaurasian Goldfinch
  40. Grey Teal
  41. Australiasan Gannet (coolest bird of the trip)
  42. Ibis
  43. Pied Oyster Catcher
  44. Pacific Gull
  45. Fairy Tern
  46. Seagull
  47. Singing Honeyeater
  48. Black Winged Stilt
  49. Sharptailed Sandpiper
  50. Common Blackbird
  51. White Throated Treecreeper
  52. Brown Thornbill
  53. Red Browed Finch
  54. White faced Heron
  55. Yellow Spoonbill
  56. White Faced Heron
  57. Emu
  58. Little Egret
  59. Wedge Tailed Egret
  60. Blue Winged Parrot
  61. Common Bronzewing Pidgeon
  62. Grey Currawong (Manja Shelter)
  63. Yellow Rumped Thornbill
  64. Bassian Thrush (Billimina Shelter)
  65. Red Rumped Parrots
  66. Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
  67. Spotted Pardalote
  68. Jackie Winter
  69. White Browed Scrubwren
  70. Red Wattledbird
  71. Pied Currawong
  72. Powerful Owl (Intersection of Henty Hwy and Halls Gap Road, 10.00pm and a real thrill)
  73. Rufous Whistler
  74. Skylark
  75. Red Goshawk (Natimuk)
  76. White Plumed Honeyeater
  77. Black Fronted Dotteral
  78. Brown Songlark
  79. Crested Pidgeon
  80. Grey Fantail
  81. Shearwaters
  82. Black Winged Kite
  83. Rufous Bristlebird (Lochard Gorge)
  84. King Parrot (Lavender Hill)
  85. Indian Myna
As you can see we both had a wonderful time away!

posted by Jeff at 9:26 pm

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mmmmm, am sure I can think of a couple of other highlights.

Of course it's important to note that the predominance of this bird viewing took place all over the Grampians, in Portland, Port Fairy and right along the Great Ocean Road.

Significant "spotting" occured from bird "hides" such as the dining room of our 4star eco lodge in Dunkeld, from cafes, picnic spots, on walks up what felt like small alps but turned out to be just hills, visiting aboriginal painting sites, on the beach, hiking to a seal colonies, at dinner in Port Fairy and whilst driving to all these places.

We only lunched at a swamp locale in order to catch the bird action once!!!

16 January, 2006 14:26  

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