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| Diamond Firetail |
Peach Trees camping
ground near Jimna is one of our favourite retreats and this week we
had two nights there, our first visit since
April
2016, when Masked Owl and Powerful Owl were seen. No owls this
time and not much in the way of birds about the camping ground, with
Peregrine Falcon and Crested Shrike-tit the only species of interest. Black-striped Wallaby, Red-necked Wallaby, Swamp Wallaby and Eastern Grey Kangaroo were about the camping ground.
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| Crested Shrike-tit |
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| Black-striped Wallaby |
Boebuck and Common
Brushtail were feeding in the same fruiting white cedar, while a
short spotlighting trip up the road turned up a couple of Eastern
Ringtails and large male Koala.
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| Koala |
Of special interest
is an area of open woodland nearby. From the turnoff to Peach Trees
near Jimna, proceed 4.5km north along the Kilcoy-Murgon Road to its
junction with Yabba Road. Turn right into Yabba Road for 200m to a
small dam. The site in Jimna State Forest can also be reached by
driving or hiking 3.5km from the camping ground on a rougher forestry
road. An extraordinary range of dry country birds occurs here. It's
something of a mystery because the woodland is quite small and
surrounded by the mosaic of open forest, rainforest and wet
sclerophyll forest that typifies this region. Best of the woodland
special birds was Diamond Firetail, here at the northern limit of its
range. I saw one bird on two occasions during 3.5 hours at the site.
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| Diamond Firetail |
Other drier country
birds that are scarce east of the Great Divide in the area included
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, Fuscous Honeyeater and Speckled Warbler.
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| Fuscous Honeyeater |
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| Speckled Warbler |
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| Yellow-tufted Honeyeater |
Good numbers of
Brown Treecreeper were about. This species does not appear to occur
anywhere else in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
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| Brown Treecreeper |
A surprising number of Rufous Songlark - about 8-10 birds – were seen. This
species is thought to largely leave South-East Queensland in winter,
with a small number overwintering, but clearly these birds are
spending the cooler months here.
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| Rufous Songlark |
Other nice birds
included quite a few more Crested Shrike-tits, White-bellied
Cuckoo-shrike, Dusky Woodswallow and Jacky Winter.
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| Dusky Woodswallow |
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| Jacky Winter |
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| White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike |
A small herd of
introduced Red Deer was surprised to spot us.
Ebird list.
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| Red Deer |
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