Birds around Kenilworth

Went out early yesterday morning to have a look around the southern outskirts of Kenilworth. Much of the time was spent at and around the Charlie Moreland campground near Little Yabba Creek. This would have to be the best birding spot on the Sunshine Coast. It has lots of the more common birds as well as the not so common, all in one place. I arrived just before 6 and the birds were still active and calling when I left the area around 10 o'clock.

Unfortunately I had camera issues for the first few hours of the trip so I missed out on many good oppurtunities. As a result many of the species mentioned below have not been included as photographs in this blog due to the quality. I did include the Noisy Pitta  and the Logrunners, even though they are terrible photos.

Noisy Pitta (Too bad about the photo quality)

 

The highlights of the trip were seeing several Topknot Pigeons and getting my first photograph of them and seeing dozens of Wompoo Fruit-Doves and Rose-crowned Fruit-Doves. It's great to see that both of these birds are in large numbers at this location on the Sunshine Coast. The other highlights of the trip was seeing my first Noisy Pittas and Paradise Riflebirds on the Sunshine Coast. There were about 10 individuals in the area of each species. Some Noisy Pittas were roosting in the trees but the majority were flushed from the forest floor. Unfortunately all of the male Paradise Riflebirds were in flight that were seen. Beautiful to observe but hard to photograph. Many were heard calling from within the forest as well.

Wompoo Fruit-Dove

My first ever sighting and photo of a Topknot Pigeon

 

 

 Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
In large numbers and easily heard but hard to photograph

Brown Cuckoo-Doves, White-headed Pigeons and Spangled Drongos were also seen in reasonable numbers. Bell Miners were in the 100's if not thousands in the whole area. Noisy Miners were common near the campground but not elsewhere. Hundreds of Logrunners were also sighted.

Brown Cuckoo-Dove feeding on wattle seeds

Male Logrunner

Female Logrunner

Other species that were observed were the Pale-headed and Crimson Rosellas, White-browed Scrubwrens, Yellow Thornbills, Eastern Whipbirds, Eastern Yellow Robins, Golden Whistlers, Grey Fantails, Yellow-throated Scrubwrens, Restless Flycatchers plus a few others. Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos and Little Lorikeets were in quite large numbers also.


I would recommend this area to anyone that enjoys bird watching. One of my favourite birding spots from around Australia. An amazing collection of birds. Might even try this place again next weekend now the camera is back in action and will hopefully get some good quality pics of the other species that were sighted.

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