After knocking off Oriental Cuckoo this morning at Dayboro (see previous post) I had a day to spare and decided to use it. I ended up on the Sunshine Coast hinterland and hit an excellent hot spot on Cooloolabin Road, near Yandina. About 7.3 km up this road I found a single Fairy Gerygone with others heard calling – although they were quite hard to hear and get onto over a deafening whirr of cicadas! Also here were White-headed (Varied) Sittella, White-throated Treecreeper, Mistletoebird and Rufous Fantail.
The gerygone will be no news to Greg Roberts, who has been documenting their occurrence and possible spread on the Sunshine Coast, but it was a pleasant surprise for me. The habitat was tall eucalypt forest, not the vine scrub from which Greg has mostly reported them.
Another 400 metres up the road, I stopped to check out a Barred Cuckoo-shrike high in a tree, and as I was doing so a magnificent female Grey Goshawk passed overhead. Emerald Dove was common at Fairhill Nursery at Ninderry, rounding off an excellent morning’s birding.
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