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Week Fourteen: The Center of Australia, and Sydney Part #1

10,000 Birds

Wedge-tailed Eagles roam the skies, along with Brown Falcon, Black Kites , and Nankeen Kestrels. This Wedge-tailed Eagle was sitting along side one of the roads, eyeing a small road killed Kangaroo. Sure enough, and group of 8 camels was not to far off the road, about 35 kilometers from Yulara.

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Campbell Park, Canberra

10,000 Birds

As you first walk down the paths (or even park) the dominant species is not a bird but Eastern Grey Kangaroos, and lots of them. On that first evening the highlights were a Wedge-tailed Eagle that I flushed and a White-throated Treecreeper in a flock of small things that the failing light hid from identification.

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