Gloucester Tops, NSW, 18-19 Sep 2010

Hi all,

Ed Williams, Tony Keene, Rob Hynson and I spent the weekend at Gloucester Tops, NSW. We saw and/or heard 89 bird species, spotlit a number of mammals (including a Koala half-way up the mountain!) and saw a few reptiles.

Tawny Frogmouth 13 Pheasant Coucal 3 Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo 1 Shining Bronze-Cuckoo 1 Southern Boobook 6 Sooty Owl 2 Sacred Kingfisher 1 Rufous Scrub-bird 4 Red-browed Treecreeper 4 Green Catbird 1 Yellow-throated Scrubwren 1 White-throated Gerygone 3 Olive Whistler 3 3 crow species Black-faced Monarch 1 Paradise Riflebird 3 (2M, 1F) Flame Robin 4 (3M, 1F) Russet-tailed Thrush 2

Koala 1 (spotlit at night!) Common Brushtail Possum 1 Yellow-bellied Glider 2 Greater Glider 17! Eastern Grey Kangaroo 2 Red-necked Wallaby common Red-necked Pademelon 1 House Cat 1 in the NP European Rabbit 2

Snake-necked Turtle 12 Yellow-bellied Water Skink 2 Garden Sunskink 1 Eastern Bearded Dragon 1 Common Froglet chorus

Cheers,

Nikolas

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