White-throated Needletail and Albert”s Lyrebird

On the far north coast of NSW last week for a work field trip (13 Oct), I saw a pair of Albert’s Lyrebirds at Bar Mountain in Border Ranges NP. They were about 50 metres along Nothofagus walk, and seemed really intent on scratching under a fallen tree, ignoring people only 3 metres away. I got a couple of pictures, something I never imagined with this shy species. The following day (14 Oct) we were at Lennox Head, after a storm passed through there was a flock of White-throated Needletails at 2.30 pm, between 30 and 40 birds, flying low above the headland. Conditions were sunny and humid, and the birds disappeared from view in only a couple of minutes. Richard