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| Turquoise Parrot |
Following
our visit to Eskdale (next post) we continued on to the northern
Victorian town of Glenrowan, famed both as the birthplace of Ned
Kelly and as the place where he finally met his match with state
police. We did a bit of an historic tour and checked in to the
Glenrowan Tourist Park for an overnight stay.
It
was immediately obvious that this was one very birdy site. Just
outside the reception area, Rufous Songlarks and White-winged
Trillers were calling all
over the place while mixed
flocks of White-browed and Masked Woodswallows wheeled overhead. A
small flock of White-browed Babblers foraged in the undergrowth.
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| White-browed Babbler |
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| Masked Woodswallow |
Glenrowan
is famed as a hotspot for Turquoise Parrot and I found a fine male
foraging around our campsite. I saw another single bird later but
there did not appear to be any others about.
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| Turquoise Parrot |
Gang
Gang Cockatoo also put on a good
show with birds coming in to drink and feeding in the trees on
some kind of nut.
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| Gang Gang Cockatoo male |
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| Gang Gang Cockatoo female |
Other
birds about included Brown Treecreeper and Crested Shrike-tit.
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| Crested Shrike-tit |
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