Stories from Shannonvale, aka the Moth man from Mossman: Tour Part 1

Finally got round to sorting a "few" of the 3800 pictures I took on my 21 day jau.nt from Darwin - Kakadu - Cairns - Tablelands - Georgetown.
This post covers the first nine days when we were based in the Top End. It was great to get back but boy was it hot and this was only September, our last full days birding in the NT peaked at a slightly warm 44 degrees!
These images are in no particular order other than alphabetic...so here goes
Black-necked Stork or Jabiru

Blue-winged Kookaburra

Black Bittern - we saw a couple of these sometimes illusive herons on our cruise on Yellow Waters in Kakadu

Black-tailed Treecreeper

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Brolga in the mist at dawn on Yellow Waters in Kakadu

Brush Cuckoo

Comb-crested Jacana

Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon - an endemic restricted to the sandstone escarpments in Kakadu and Arnhem Land

Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon

Cockatiel - amazing to see these commonly kept cage birds in the wild where they should be

Cockatiel

Crimson Finch

Forest Kigfisher

Golden-headed Cisticola

Galah

Glossy Ibis

Glossy Ibis sunning itself

adult Gouldian Finch - these colourful endemic finches were very popular cage birds and were collected to the point of being almost extinct in the wild. They have made quite a recovery over the last ten years. We saw a small group of adults and juveniles on the Marraki Track approx 75km from Darwin