Tour Part III

The final section of the gtour was the Atherton Tablelands and Georgetown area.
We stayed at KingfisherPark near Julattem inn the northern Tablelands and in Atherton when in the southern Tablelands. Here are a few of the better shots in no particular order other than alphabetic!
Australian Bustard

 Aus Grebe

 Black-faced Cuckooshrike

 Black Swan

 Blue-winged Kookaburra, we did see several Laughing Kooks as well but for some reason i didn't take any pictures of them!

 Brown Cuckoo- Dove

 Brown Falcon - through the cars windscreen

 Bush Thick-knee

 Chowchilla - an awful picture but the best I have managed so far of this endemic forest skulker

 Eastern Whipbird - another skulker that is almost in focus

 Freckled Duck - Australia's rarest duck that arrived in the Tablelands last March (only four previous records) numbers peaked at 28 and there are still atleast eight in the area

 Green Pygmy Goose

 Grey-headed Robin

 White-eyed Duck

 Lewins Honeyeater

 Little Pied Cormorant

 Little Shrike-thrush

 Macleays Honeyeater

 Noisy Pitta - low light made getting any decent pictures very difficult

 Pale-headed Rosella

 Papuan Frogmouth

 Pheasant Coucal

 Pied Monarch

 Pink-eared Duck

 Sarus Crane

 Scarlet Honeyeater

 Silvereye

 Squatter Pigeon - the Queensland equivalent of the Partridge Pigeon we saw in Kakadu

 Topknot

 Wandering Whistling Duck

 White-throated Honeyeater

 White-browed Robin on nest

 Yellow-breasted Boatbill

One of the highlights was a boat trip on the Daintree
Azure Kingfisher

 Great-billed Heron

 Wompoo on nest

In the southern Tablelands probably my favourite endemic is the Golden Bowerbird - but there were also many other goodies
male Golden Bowerbird

The bird of the trip though for me was this Australian Owlet Nightjar

From here we spent the last two days in Georgetown looking for dry country birds
Apostlebird

 Aus Magpie

 Banded Honeyeater

 Black-faced Woodswallow

 Brow Quail

 Budgies - always a treat to see this commonly kept cage bird in the wild

 Crested Pigeon

 Diamond Dove

 Double-barred Finch

 Masked Woodswallow

 Red-backed Fairywren
          female

         male

We did also some non birds the undoubted highlights being....
Lumholtzs Tree Kangaroo

and several large Salties on the Daintree