Birding Lake Coolmunda Caravan Park & Surrounds

The area between the Cunningham Highway to roughly the railway tracks has plenty of birdlife.

Coolmunda2Once again, it was a great place to look fro parrots!  Red-winged Parrots were hanging around just outside the caravan park while Scaly-breasted Lorikeets & Crested Pigeons were easily found inside the park.

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The stretch of road just opposite this fancy house is good for Red-Rumped Parrots foraging in the grass.

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The grassy area just outside the park was also good for fairywrens.  I was a bit far from the bush they were hanging out in so had to zoom quite a bit.  At first I was thinking they were all Superb Fairy-wrens.

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Zooming in on this photo showed that I had also found a flock of White-winged Fairy-wrens!

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And a Black-shouldered Kite put on an amazing display of hunting.  He hovered like a ……………………. well a kite!

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Aha, spotted something!

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The kite swooped quickly and withdrew to a pole holding a rat.  I was so impressed I would have gladly offered him a job keeping my home free of rats if I could be sure that was all he would eat!

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