Laura to Running Creek

Red Goshawks building new nest on west-east section of Lilyvale Road, near old nest site. Female preening well in view, undisturbed by our presence. Told Lama Lama and QPWS rangers.

Another likely looking nest - Buzzard? - approx 4km down the northern section of Lilyvale Rd.

Camped at campsite 1 (Dugong) in the campground operated by Lama Lama (Yintjingga) rangers. Direct beach front on Princess Charlotte Bay. Enormous vista. No one else around. Beach Stone-curlew on beach in front of us, 4 Eastern Curlew, 6 Whimbrel, plus assorted waterbirds, terns. Definitely a wintering ground for Numenius...!

Share bird list below with Lama Lama rangers. Email Alison @ Port Stewart Rangers (to give to Sam)

Bird list Laura to Running Creek reserve northern boundary:
Emu
Orange-footed scrubfowl
Black-necked stork
Royal spoonbill
Australian white ibis
Straw-necked ibis
White-faced heron
White-necked heron
Nankeen night-heron (many, night feeding along road side gullies)
Australian pelican
Little egret
Plumed egret
Great egret
Radjah shelduck
Wandering? whistling duck (h)
Green pygmy-goose
Magpie goose
Comb-crested jacana
Australasian darter
Little pied cormorant
Silver gull
Australian gull-billed tern
Caspian tern
Crested tern
Whimbrel
Far eastern curlew
Red-capped plover
Australian pied oystercatcher
Beach stone-curlew (3? at camp site)
Brown falcon
Whistling kite
Black kite
Brahminy kite
White-bellied sea-eagle
Osprey
Spotted harrier (Laura-Lakeland)
Square-tailed kite (95% sure)
Brown goshawk
Red goshawk
Black/Peregrine falcon (distant silhouette)
Wedge-tailed eagle
Nankeen kestrel
Large-tailed nightjar
Papuan frogmouth (H)
Laughing kookaburra
Blue-winged kookaburra
Azure kingfisher
Sacred kingfisher
Forest kingfisher
Yellow-billed kingfisher (near northern reserve boundary)
Rainbow bee-eater
Rainbow lorikeet
Red-winged parrot
Golden-shouldered parrot
Sulfur-crested cockatoo
Red-tailed black cockatoo
Galah
Banded HE
Dusky HE
Bar-breasted HE
Yellow-tinted HE
Yellow HE
Brown HE
Graceful HE
Yellow-spotted HE
White-throated HE
Blue-faced HE
Silver-crowned friarbird
Helmeted friarbird
Little friarbird
Peaceful dove
Bar-shouldered dove
Wompoo fruit-dove
Emerald dove
Squatter pigeon
Large-billed gerygone
White-throated gerygone
Fairy gergone
Lovely fairy-wren
Red-backed fairy-wren
Tropical scrubwren (near northern reserve boundary)
Striated pardalote
Red-browed pardalote
Grey whistler
Rufous whistler
Grey shrike-thrush
Little shrike-thrush
Great bowerbird
Olive-backed sunbird
Lemon-bellied flycatcher
Leaden flycatcher
Shining flycatcher
Weebill
Black-faced/winged? monarch?? (h)
Magpie-lark
Northern fantail
Rufous fantail
Grey fantail
Spangled drongo
Yellow oriole (v young juvenile)
Fan-tailed cuckoo
Brush cuckoo
Little bronze-cuckoo
Varied triller
Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
Black butcherbird
Black-backed butcherbird
Pied butcherbird
Australian magpie
Torresian crow
White-breasted wood swallow
Tree martin
Masked finch
Red-browed finch
Black-throated finch
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