Tish was on a late last night and did not get in until gone 1120pm, by the time she had had a shower and bite to eat etc it was well past 0030am so Cameron and I left her to have a mid morning snooze today aqs she is on another late this afternoon.
I decided to take my little helper..
off to Reddens Island.
This is a small peninsula just to the south of Yorkeys connected by a short bridge. The beach offered a different view of the Knob
He got slightly stuck in the anti-bike kissing gate system and i was tempted to leave him locked up...
The reserve is a smallish area of mixed forest and looks quite interesting.
There were lots of things flying around - mostly insects like this rather attractive moth
There was plenty of bird calls but not too many were visible - I have an app on my phone that has Australian Birdsongs on it but it is hard going trying to work out what is what, luckily I have a couple of days next month with another ex pat birder who has been in Cairns for seven years so he is going to take me to some good sites in the city and the Atherton Tablelands - he has an excellent memory for calls so should be very helpful!
Despite hearing more than we saw there was still plenty around to show the sites full potential - although some of them were a bit tricky to find so here we go there is a stunning bird called the Lovely Fairywren in this picture, can you find it??
Zoomed in this is what it looks like
the blue blob in the middle - great photo eh!!!!!
Will post the first picture with the bird circled tomorrow!
You can find it no problem in the first picture - start at the last one, work out the arrangement of tree & leaves round the little sod then find them ;-)
ReplyDeleteFound it in the latter pics, not so clever in the first ones! Cameron looks like a prisoner waiting for visitors!
ReplyDeletepoor Cameron. the moth would be a good design for wallpaper.
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