Trevor Quested

I saw a flock of 30+ Channel-billed Cuckoos over Cania Gorge National Park, Qld on Christmas Day 2005. I observed a flock of 50+ Channel-billed Cuckoos in a lone fig tree on a hilltop near the park entrance of Goodnight Scrub National Park on 19th Feb 2006. The birds looked to be gathering for migration … Read more

At the Henrietta Creek camp ground and picnic area off the Palmerston Highway QLD there is a good spot for bird photography. Where there is site 1, walk around the back of the tiny grove of rainforest. There is a fig tree with very large fruit very low down. In this we saw Double-eyed Fig … Read more

Yesterday I flushed a Rufous Owl while birdwatching near the Crater Mt. Hypipamee NP QLD. Today I saw a Golden Bowerbird at his bower south of the Crater. I am enjoying birding in Atherton Tablelands. On Sunday 20th Keith Fisher showed me the Spotted Whistling Ducks at Wonga, QLD. This was a welcome lifer and … Read more

I made a short video yesterday of the Grey-crowned Babblers playing in our garden in Bundaberg, QLD. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2569411004327 Trevor from the iPhone =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================

We live in Wallum scrub 10km south of the centre of Bundaberg, Qld. We had a White-throated Nightjar call last night at dusk. Normally we only hear them call on a full moon. My records show we heard it earlier this month as well. Previous records show it in November last year. In 2008 we … Read more