We started out early again, 5:30 breakfast and 6:00 departure. This time we were only driving 45 minutes in the same direction as yesterday. The Pacific Adventist University is a boarding school and the grounds are our birding spot for the day. The campus is sprawling and is dotted with different sized ponds. It is certainly a hotspot for birds as we saw 32 different species of which 10 were new to my list. Ken, once again, was a magnet for folks to come up to and have a talk. We made it all around the campus and had some help along the way, a man pointed out a Papuan Frogmouth and Jun found two more in the same tree. We called in three Papuan Ecelectus Parrots who responded to our calls. We also forged deep into the brush trying to entice a few Common Paradise Kingfishers to show themselves.
Driving before the sun was up
Passing markets, the betel nuts were hot items
Lots to get early in the morning
At the gate we passed the Torosian Imperial Pigeons
Two singing Starlings Life Bird #1 for the day #22 trip life bird (TLB)
Tree buddies, a Torosian Crow and a an Australian Figbird
Orange Breasted Fruit Dove LB#2 and TLB#23
Ken meeting a new buddy
Pacific Black Duck
The Australasian Swamphen has a tasty bit
The Australian Ibis
Several different colors of waterlilies were in this pond
Nankeen Night Heron
Rufus Banded Honeyeater LB#3 TLB#24
Helmeted Friarbird LB#4 TLB#25
Lots of hungry fish
Turtles too
Beautiful
A guy came out with some bread and we had a feeding frenzy
A Australian Darter flying over the waterlilies
Three Little Black Cormorants swimming
A huge raintree
With a frog mouth in the branches
Black Backed Butcherbird LB#5 TLB#26
Maybe a fruit dove breakfasted here
The sun is up on the mountains
Lots of bananas
Masked Lapwing
Brahminy Kite
Yellow Faced Myna LB#6 TLB#27
Little Egret
A watchtower next to the electric fence
Radjah Shelduck
Wandering Whistling-Duck LB#7 TLB#28
Pied Herons LB#7 TLB#29
So many little black cormorants
Sadly this turtle has died
Nankeen Night Heron
Papuan Eclectus LB#9 TLB#30
A Bowerbirds bower
This one loves green
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Fawn Breasted Bower Bird LB#10 TLB#31
Green Ants!
We heard multiple calls from a Common Paradise Kingfisher, it lured us into the dense woods
Shelf mushrooms
So many fruits
Cormorant roost
So peaceful
Snail leftovers
Holy roost tree Batman
Big fruit bats
