WEEKEND AWAY - KILCOY - JIMNA - KINGAROY - NANANGO - HOME!!

BIRD OF THE DAY [SATURDAY] - Crested Shrike tit. Excellent prolonged views of a pair of this  species near Jimna 

BIRD OF THE TRIP [SEEN SUNDAY] - WHITE BACKED SWALLOW [photo by Cecile Espigole]

We just finished an excellent weekend away into the 'near west'.

WE left Nambour on Saturday morning and had our first birding adjacent to the Kilcoy meat works.

Next stop was near Jimna and the birding was great!!

Rufous Songlark

White bellied Cuckoo-shrike

White bellied Cuckoo-shrike

Restless Flycatcher

Fuscous Honeyeater

White naped Honeyeater

Yellow faced Honeyeater

Dusky Woodswallow

Jacky Winter

Fan tailed Cuckoo

Then via many back roads, yet still in the zone of happiness, onto Nanango.

Buff rumped Thornbill

Buff rumped Thornbill

From Nanango we drove to the Hotel Oasis in Kingaroy and happily took our dinner there as well.

Sunday saw us early at Gordonbrook Dam and we had some very good birding there as well.

Pink Eared Ducks - 2 of approx. 15

Gordonbrook Dam

Gordonbrook Dam

White breasted Woodswallows at Gordonbrook

Bustards

Bustards

Striped Honeyeater

Yellow Thornbill

Lunch at Nanango and a quick look around the East Nanango Fauna and  Flora Sanctuary before a long drive home with a few stops to add some species to our weekend lists.

Yellow rumped Thornbill in Nanango park

Weekend Away Birding Crew!

Birds recorded [thanks Cecile]

1. Apostlebird
2. Latham’s Snipe
3. Azure Kingfisher
4. Laughing Kookaburra
5. Leaden flycatcher
6. Australian Pelican
7. Australasian Darter
8. Little black cormorant 
9. Great Cormorant
10. Pied Cormorant
11. Little Pied Cormorant
12. Caspian Tern
13. Black-winged Stilt
14. Red-capped Plover
15. Black-fronted dotterel
16. Masked lapwing
17. Comb-crested Jacana
18. Black Swan
19. Cotton Pygmy-Goose
20. Australian Wood Duck
21. Pink-eared Duck
22. Australasian Shoveler
23. Grey Teal
24. Chestnut Teal 
25. Hardhead
26. Pacific Black duck
27. Australasian Grebe
28. Great Crested Grebe 
29. White-faced Heron
30. White-necked Heron
31. Cattle egret 
32. Great egret
33. Intermediate egret 
34. Little Egret
35. Australian White Ibis
36. Royal Spoonbill
37. Straw-necked Ibis
38. Glossy Ibis
39. Yellow-billed Spoonbill
40. Purple swamphen
41. Dusky Moorhen
42. Eurasian Coot
43. Australian Bustard
44. Australian Brush-turkey
45. Brown Quail
46. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
47. Wedge-tailed eagle
48. Black Kite
49. Whistling kite
50. Collared Sparrowhawk
51. Black-shouldered kite
52. Brown Falcon
53. Nankeen Kestrel
54. Peregrine Falcon
55. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo 
56. Galah
57. Cockatiel
58. Little Corella
59. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
60. Rainbow Lorikeet
61. Scaly-breasted lorikeet
62. Little Lorikeet
63. Australian King-Parrot 
64. Pale-headed rosella
65. Red-rumped Parrot
66. Spotted Turtle-dove 
67. Brown Cuckoo-Dove
68. White-headed Pigeon 
69. Crested Pigeon
70. Peaceful dove
71. Bar-shouldered Dove
72. Topknot pigeon 
73. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
74. Shining Bronze-Cuckoo
75. Forest Kingfisher 
76. Rainbow Bee-eater 
77. Welcome swallow
78. Tree martin
79. Fairy Martin
80. White-backed Swallow
81. White-browed Scrubwren
82. Weebill
83. Striated Thornbill 
84. Yellow Thornbill
85. Brown thornbill
86. Buff-rumped Thornbill
87. Yellow-rumped Thornbill
88. White-throated Gerygone 
89. Spotted Pardalote 
90. Striated Pardalote
91. Superb Fairy-wren
92. Red-backed Fairywren
93. Variegated Fairy-Wren
94. Fuscous Honeyeater
95. Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
96. White-naped Honeyeater
97. White-throated Honeyeater
98. Lewin’s Honeyeater 
99. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
100. Brown Honeyeater
101. New Holland Honeyeater
102. Blue-faced Honeyeater
103. Striped Honeyeater
104. Bell Miner
105. Noisy miner
106. Little Friarbird
107. Noisy Friarbird
108. Eastern Whipbird
109. Grey-crowned Babbler
110. Varied sittella
111. White-throated treecreeper
112. Brown Treecreeper
113. Varied Triller
114. Black-faced Cuckooshrike 
115. White-bellied Cuckoo-Shrike
116. Dusky Woodswallow
117. White-breasted Woodswallow
118. Pied currawong
119. Pied butcherbird 
120. Grey Butcherbird 
121. Australian Magpie
122. White-winged Chough
123. Torresian Crow
124. Satin Bowerbird
125. Australian Figbird
126. Spangled Drongo
127. Olive-backed Oriole
128. Peewee/Magpie Lark
129. Restless Flycatcher
130. Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon 
131. Grey Fantail
132. Rufous fantail 
133. Willie-wagtail
134. Jacky Winter
135. Eastern Yellow Robin
136. Crested Shrike-tit
137. Rufous Whistler
138. Golden Whistler
139. Little Shrike-thrush  
140. Grey Shrike-Thrush
141. Mistletoebird
142. Silvereye
143. Golden-headed Cisticola 
144. Little Grassbird 
145. Rufous Songlark
146. Common Myna
147. Common Starling
148. Zebra Finch
149. Double-barred Finch
150. Red-browed Finch
151. Chestnut-breasted Mannikin 
152. House Sparrow