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Cape York 2024

2 week camping trip to Iron Range (Kutini Payamu) National Park. Me and Marty. No dog. Lots of birds, insects, plants, amphibians, a few reptiles, gastropods, crustaceans, fish, echinoderms, and the odd mammal! Read more
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    June 22, 2024
    Sally SheldonCape York 2024Traveler

    Trip target list

    June 21, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Target endemics:
    Palm cockatoo
    Double-eyed Fig-parrot ssp marshalli
    Eclectus parrot
    Red-cheeked parrot
    Yellow-billed kingfisher
    Green-backed honeyeater
    Tawny-breasted honeyeater
    Graceful honeyeater (ssp gracilis)
    Magnificent riflebird
    Trumpet manucode
    Black-eared catbird
    Fawn-breasted bowerbird
    Frill-necked monarch
    Yellow-legged Fly-robin
    White-faced robin
    Northern scrub-robin
    Marbled frogmouth
    Little shrike-thrush ssp normani

    Target new spp:
    Barking owl ssp peninsularis
    Broad-billed flycatcher
    Red-headed honeyeater    Read more

  • Sally SheldonCape York 2024Traveler
    Camp site Running Creek (site 1, Dugong)
    Camp site Running Creek (site 1, Dugong)View northView south... and East...Mangroves at mouth of Running CreekNiceV niceWorth keeping people out of!Unphased by usPaperbarks (M. viridiflora), termite mounds, grass trees (X. johnsonii) - v Cape York!Marty on the beachCreek near the Ranger hutView from halfway up the McIlwraith RangeGood stuffStewart River, riverbedBeach at Running Creek, sunriseBeach at Running Creek, sunriseBeach at Running Creek, sunriseBeach at Running Creek, sunrise

    Laura to Running Creek

    June 22, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    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
    Mistletoebird    Read more

  • Sally SheldonCape York 2024Traveler
    Wenlock River, looking upstream east of the causeway
    Ditto... and againCanarium fruit (nut), favoured by the Palmy that visited our campI don't remember why I took this!

    Stewart River to Wenlock River

    June 25, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Camped at Wenlock River crossing (east bank) 2 nights. Lucked a camp in middle of flowering Grevillea (glauca and fern spp), bloodwoods, and fruiting Canarium trees. Great views of Palm cockatoos feeding, first evening and second day. Good numbers of Tawny-breasted and White-streaked HE in amongst Gracefuls, Duskies, and White-throateds. Lots of opportunities master calls.

    Full bird list:

    Wandering whistling-duck (h)
    Black-necked stork
    Great egret
    Plumed egret
    White-necked heron
    Straw-necked ibis
    Australian white ibis
    Australian darter
    Little pied cormorant
    Whistling kite
    Black kite
    Brahminy kite
    Square-tailed kite
    Brown goshawk
    Brown falcon
    Collared sparrowhawk
    Papuan frogmouth (h)
    Rainbow bee-eater
    Blue-winged kookaburra (much more common than Laughing)
    Laughing kookaburra (one dead on PDR north of Archer River)
    Forest kingfisher (heard at camp)
    Rainbow lorikeet
    Pale-headed rosella
    Red-winged parrot
    Galah
    Palm cockatoo
    Sulfur-crested cockatoo
    Fairy gerygone
    Large-billed gerygone
    Dusky HE
    Graceful HE (everywhere)
    Yellow-spotted HE (heard)
    White-throated HE
    White-streaked HE
    Tawny-breasted HE
    Yellow HE
    Brown-backed HE (only 3 seen)
    Blue-faced HE
    Silver-crowned friarbird
    Helmeted friarbird
    Little friarbird
    Noisy miner
    Peaceful dove
    Bar-shouldered dove
    Common bronzewing
    Wompoo fruit-dove
    Red-backed fairy-wren
    Rufous fantail
    Grey fantail
    Northern fantail
    Leaden flycatcher
    Shining flycatcher (h)
    Brush cuckoo
    Little bronze-cuckoo
    Grey whistler
    Rufous shrike-thrush
    Grey shrike-thrush
    Rufous whistler
    Australasian figbird
    Yellow oriole
    Olive-backed oriole
    Great bowerbird
    Weebill
    Striated pardalote
    Red-browed pardalote
    Pheasant coucal
    Varied triller
    Cicadabird (northern race)
    White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
    Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
    Lemon-bellied fly-robin
    Magpie-lark
    Australian magpie
    Pied butcherbird
    Black-backed butcherbird
    Black butcherbird
    Spangled drongo
    Pied currawong
    Torresian crow
    Grey-crowned babbler
    White-breasted wood swallow
    Red-browed finch (northern race)
    Black-throated finch
    Double-barred finch (h)
    Olive-backed sunbird
    Mistletoebird    Read more

  • Sally SheldonCape York 2024Traveler
    Pascoe River crossing
    Pascoe RiverPascoe River crossingPascoe River crossingMount Tozer, south of Iron Range NPIron Range rainforest crickets were cheeky on a rainy night - but which species?Camp at Rainforest site 2, Iron Range NPCamp at Rainforest site 2, Iron Range NPFlood damage Cape York style...Our source of fresh water (west Claudie River)Cyclone-recovered Milky Pine on road east of LockhartEarly evening, just south of the Lockhart/NP road junctionCamp site 2 at Gordon CreekCamp site (2 again!) at Chilli Beach

    Wenlock River to Iron Range

    June 30, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    Camped nights 1 and 2 at Rainforest campground site 2. Camped nights 3 and 4 at Gordon Creek site 2.

    Locals: John Pritchard, Peter. In old Land cruiser. Horticulturalist, biosecurity. Has Regan Jensen, Wendy Cooper visiting. Lived on Restoration Island, now in Lockhart.

    Rangers: Carl (head, relieving, from Atherton); Craig (from Mareeba); Catherine (local, Lockhart); Shimona? (Mum from Lockhart)

    NS Contracting FNQ P/L

    Birders:
    Rob and Kayleen Bilson (Aldershot; formerly Atherton)
    Greg Hunt & Caroline (from Melbourne)
    Yu Ota's tour group
    Jonathan from US

    Bird list for Wenlock River east, including Iron Range NP:

    Brown booby
    Lesser frigatebird
    Austrian pelican
    Australian darter
    Little pied cormorant
    Silver gull
    Caspian tern
    Australian gull-billed tern
    Crested tern
    Little tern
    Australian pied oystercatcher
    Pacific golden plover
    Red-capped plover
    Masked lapwing
    White-faced heron
    Reef egret
    Striated heron
    Australian white ibis
    Red-necked crake (h) @ Rainforest site 2
    Australian brush turkey (ssp purpureicollis)*
    Orange-footed scrubfowl
    Brahminy kite
    Whistling kite
    Nankeen kestrel
    Pacific baza (h)
    Peregrine falcon
    Swamp harrier
    Marbled frogmouth*
    Papuan frogmouth
    Eclectus parrot*
    Red-cheeked parrot*
    Double-eyed Fig-parrot (ssp marshalli)*
    Palm cockatoo*
    Sulphur-crested cockatoo
    Rainbow lorikeet
    Brown cuckoo-dove
    Peaceful dove
    Bar-shouldered dove
    Wompoo fruit-dove
    Rose-crowned fruit-dove
    Superb fruit-dove
    Pacific emerald dove
    Chestnut-breasted cuckoo (many calling; juvenile apparently being fed by Tropical Scrubwrens @ west Old Coen track)
    Brush cuckoo
    Shining bronze-cuckoo
    Little bronze-cuckoo
    Pheasant coucal
    Yellow-billed kingfisher* (many calling, mostly dawn and dusk; v hard to see)
    Forest kingfisher
    Sacred kingfisher
    Torresian kingfisher
    Azure kingfisher
    Rainbow bee-eater
    Australian swiftlet
    Welcome swallow
    Noisy pitta
    Tropical scrubwren
    Fairy gerygone
    Large-billed gerygone
    Striated pardalote
    Lovely fairy-wren
    Red-becked fairy-wren
    Varied honeyeater
    Yellow honeyeater
    White-gaped honeyeater (h)
    White-throated honeyeater
    Yellow-spotted honeyeater
    Graceful honeyeater
    Brown-backed honeyeater
    Banded honeyeater
    Dusky honeyeater
    Brown honeyeater
    Green-backed honeyeater*
    White-streaked honeyeater
    Tawny-breasted honeyeater*
    Blue-faced honeyeater
    Helmeted (hornbill) friarbird
    Silver-crowned friarbird
    Little friarbird
    Cicadabird
    Varied triller
    Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
    White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
    Barred cuckoo-shrike
    White-breasted woodswallow
    Pied currawong
    Black-backed butcherbird
    Black butcherbird
    Torresian crow
    Magnificent rifelbird*
    Trumpet manucode*
    Black-eared catbird*
    Fawn-breasted bowerbird* (and bower!)
    Australasian figbird
    Yellow oriole
    Spangled drongo
    Shining flycatcher
    Leaden flycatcher
    Spectacled monarch
    Black-faced monarch
    Frill-necked monarch*
    White-eared monarch
    Yellow-breasted boatbill
    Rufous fantail
    Yellow-legged fly-robin*
    White-faced robin*
    White-browed robin (h)
    Mangrove robin (h)
    Northern scrub-robin*
    Rufous whistler
    Grey whistler
    Rufous shrike-thrush
    Grey shrike-thrush
    Olive-backed sunbird
    Mistletoebird
    Silvereye
    Metallic starling
    Red-browed finch

    Ringed birds seen at West Old Coen track: Tropical Scrubwren, Yellow-spotted honeyester    Read more

  • Sally SheldonCape York 2024Traveler
    Unknown sp. (mangroves, Portland Roads)
    Bruigera gymnorhiza, Portland RoadsSally paradise!!! Rhizophora forests to die for!!!R. apiculata dominate mid- to upper-tidal range, R. mucronata mid-, and R. stylosa lowFawn-breasted bower bird bower, complete with raised platform, avenue, green buds. Portland RdsNasty Mimosa?Dingo, Chilli Beach roadAbbey fig (Ficus albipila), Chilli CreekMartin getting in touch with his inner plantloverHard to capture the magnitude of this beautiful treeCamp site 2, Chilli Beach (good spot, northern end)Portland Roads is hard to take an ugly picture of...... and to underline the point...Chilli Beach at sunsetOffshore, permanent mangroves on rock islands are a night roost for Rainbow Bee-eaters and others...Sunrise over Restoration IslandCape York Red gum (Eucalyptus brassiana)Cape York Red gum (E. brassiana) nuts

    Chilli Beach

    July 1, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 26 °C

    Camped 2 nights, site 2 North end.

    Fawn-breasted bowerbird bower and owner located at Portland Roads just inland from mangrove margin. Bower complete, presumably in baseline maintenance pending breeding season.Read more

  • Trip end
    July 5, 2024
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