There is a site called Birding Pals that I used in Japan and also here in Brisbane. A couple, Brian and Meg, responded to my query and said they could show me around their town Caboolature. It is an hour north by train and so we arranged for me to head up there. Mornings are best to see birds so I got on the 5:39 AM train and met them an hour later. It was a very successful day of birding and I added 13 new birds to my list. We visited several sites from the shore, to a wooded park. to a mangrove area, to a new residential development. Brian and Meg really knew all the places to find birds. I apologize to the non-bird loving visitors as the following will mostly be a catalogue of the birds that were seen.
Some Oyster Catchers
Nive plume on the Australian Spoonbill
Australian Terns lifebird #1
A big black beak
Australian Ibis
Striated Heron
White-faced Heron
Bar-tailed Godwit
Crab catching Aussie
Rufus Shrike Thrush lifebird #2
Thick mangroves, no birds here, the cicadas chased them all away
Eastern Yellow Robin
Rainbow Lorikeet
Crested Pigeon
A park that was our third location
Noisy Friarbird
Pied Stilts lifebird #3
Rainbow Bee Eater lifebird #4
A fantastic bird
Beach Thick-Knee, a rare bird, and lifebird #5
Masked Lapwing
Peewee is the local name for the Magpie Lark
This is a cross between the little corella and the long billed corella. It does not count as a serrate species
The oystercatcher on the beach
The banksia flowers were a good source of food
Always looking
A Golden Plover blends in perfectly with its environment and lifebird #6
Bird blinds set up at the park
These blooms are very similar to those we saw in the South African Cape Floral region
The glasshouse mountains named by Captain Cook
What is left of a stranded boat
Brown Honeyeater
Spotted Dove
More flowers
Little Wattlebird lifebird #7
Sacred Kingfisher
A new location
A Golden Whistler lifebird #8
Olive Winged Bulbul
Brown Thornbill lifebird #9
Eastern Whipbird, often heard but seldom seen, lifebird #10
This laughing Kookaburra has a big bug
She looks right and then left
Then she flies into the tree to feed her fledgling
With any exhibition, danger is involved
Brahminy Kite
A variegated fairywren just getting its plumage
Grey Fantail
The kookaburra will drill a hole all the way through a termite nest to make a home
The kingfisher does the same but makes a duplex
An off house, it looks more like a barn
Yet another location, but this time on the way out. Listed here are the 4WD trails that folks with a permit can drive on
Variegated Fairywren in full color
Peaceful Dove lifebioird #11
Common Myna, these non-native birds got a curse every time Meg saw one
Maned ducks are called wood ducks in these parts
Sandy banks emerging from the reseeding tide
Bar shouldered dove
Black Cormorant
Pacific Black Ducks
Australian Swamphen
A muddy mess!
Plumed Egret, too big to be a little egret and too little to be a great egret
A Plumed Whistling Duck lifebird #12
Named for the plumed feathers sticking out, those feathers whistle in flight
Lilly
A magpie goose
The ducks really blend in
Lots of flowering bushes around this lake
Heading through the town area of Bribie Island
Tanks for your service
A helicopter too!
Spraying herbicide on the water lilies
Caution indeed
The only birds here, most were scared off by the noise of the generator running to power the spray the herbicide
Watch out... your days here are numbered
A tiny Australian Grebe (lifebird #13) is almost hidden in this picture. It is pour last place and the rain had started. I did not want to use my new camera in the rain
