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Australian Owlet-nightjar

10,000 Birds

You do need to be careful of cattle wandering across the highway, as the grass always looks greener on the other side! The puddles right against the highway had Glossy Ibis on them and they were unconcerned about the traffic-though there really isn’t much in the outback! Here we had an Australian Owlet-nightjar !

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Birds on the move

10,000 Birds

There is a lot of bird movement around Australia at the moment due to the weather, so time to go and investigate! It actually looked like the station owner was breeding birds rather than cattle! Juvenile Black-winged Stilt The water is still right to the edge of the road and it may well stay like that for quite some time.

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Bass Point Reserve-New South Wales

10,000 Birds

It was very damp along the edges of the road and there were two male Superb Lyrebirds busy kicking through the leaves right on the edge of the road. As we came through the open fields towards the coast there were numerous Cattle Egrets among the cattle and Straw-necked Ibis. Little Black Cormorants and Little Pied Cormorant.

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