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Bird Watching / Twitching

Birds you will see here in the caravan park and surrounding areas;

Satin Bowerbird – there are so many of them in the park, that if you don’t see any during your stay here, then you must be blind! The adult males are the ones that build the bowers and decorates them with all things blue. So if you can’t figure out where that blue coloured pen disappeared to, that you left on the back table, it’s probably adorning the nearest bower!

Parrots / Cockatoos

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo (Nowra) – can be seen regularly in small flocks / family groups munching on the pine cones of the pine trees throughout the park.
King Parrot – Small resident flocks are so tame they will eat straight from your hand! So don’t forget to bring the parrot mix bird seed. They can often be seen sitting on top of our bird aviary, chatting away to the male and female pair inside the aviary.
Rosella – Crimson and Eastern rosellas frequent the bird seed trays that people put out.
Gallah – the ever present gallah is very tame and is always seen around when ever there is free bird seed on offer. Like the king parrots they will be seen around the aviary socializing with the male and female gallahs in the aviary.
Rainbow Lorikeet – seen in large noisy flocks especially when the flowering eucalypts are in blossom.

Water Birds

Pelican – at least one resident pelican can be seen cruising the river in front of the caravan park.
Cormorant – often seen perched on branches or trees overhanging the river. Usually in the same area as the pelican.
Masked Lapwing Plover – seen in pairs patrolling over the mowed grass areas looking for grasshoppers and crickets.
Azure Kingfisher – rarely seen around the river bank areas. Better chance of seeing them if you take out a canoe and head up stream.
White Faced Heron – Often seen patrolling along the edge of campsites near the long grass, or closely following the cows around looking for grasshoppers the cows might disturb.
Wood Duck – out on the river all the time. Or hiding amongst the dense growth at the waters edge.
Water Hen – as for wood duck.

Raptors

White Bellied Sea Eagle – lives on the other side of the river atop the cliff. Regularly seen soaring high above the river and paddocks.
Wedge Tailed Eagle – often seen being chased away by magpies or ravens in spectacular aerial dogfights.
Hawk – perch themselves atop large trees on the river bank.
Black Shouldered Kite - hovers stationary above a spot over the fields, then suddenly dives down to the ground with talons outstretched to pounce on any unsuspecting rabbits or rodents.

Honey Eaters

Wattle Bird – Red and Little wattlebirds always seen darting about the grevillias and bottlebrush bushes.
Noisy Friar – a very playful bird that’s frequently seen chasing each other around from tree to tree.
Eastern Spinebill – whenever the long tubular flowers are blossoming you will possibly hear this bird in flight ‘buzzing’ or ‘humming’ around the front of the flower just like a humming bird, with its long bill and long needle like tongue extracting the nectar. If you are lucky enough to see one in action, just remain very still and quiet, and you will hear the audible ‘prrrrrrrrp’ of the extremely fast wing beats.
Regent Honey Eater
New Holland Honey Eater
Yellow Faced Honey Eater
White Naped Honey Eater

Pigeons / Doves

Brown Cuckoo Dove – look up in the native poison peach trees to see them feeding on the small berries.
Crested Pigeon – seen walking around looking for native grass seed near the edges of the roads.
Common Bronze-wing – as for crested pigeon.

Ground Birds

Superb Lyrebird – often seen darting across the road when driving up in the hills. Males are unmistakable with there long showy tail feathers. Heard frequently by bushwalkers.
Quail (variety unknown) - regularly seen running around under the thick undergrowth next to the cottages looking for worms and bugs.

Various

Rainbow Bee Eater - this brilliantly coloured bird is often seen in pairs down near the river darting through the air to snatch flying insects. Has nested in dirt banks on edge of camp sites by tunneling into the soil.

Dollar Bird - a striking looking bird found in the she-oaks along the river banks.

Bell Bird – many can be heard all chiming together, particularly just up the road at the pumping station turn off.

Eastern Whip Bird – very common sound you will hear coming from the vegetation covered bank that divides the level of the property is the male whip bird’s ‘whip-crack’ call to the female, who can then be heard immediately after with her response call. You can also hear them from the rain forest area on the other side of the river.

Laughing Kookaburra – very tame; some have been known to take meat scraps from your hand.

Grey Butcherbird – another one that likes a free feed. Loves to eat any wood borer grubs you may find in rotten logs. There beautiful song can be heard frequently around the area.

Magpie Lark – resident families are seen every day patrolling the grounds for insects and food scraps.

Australian Raven – mainly heard before seen, with its melancholy baby like wailing.

Common Koel – mainly heard before seen. The male is similar looking to the adult male satin bowerbird, except bigger with longer tail feathers.

Channel Billed Cuckoo – rarely seen, usually in spring, and then it is very hard not to regonise as it is being chased out of the pine trees by all the nesting birds. A very large noisy bird.

Fire-Tail Finch – large flocks seen flitting about dense vegetation beside the road, and along the river banks.

Wren – Superb Fairy Wren – the unmistakable males often seen flitting about the dense shrubs on the banks with his harem of females in tow.

Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike – a beautiful looking and sounding bird, their mellow melodic calls are often heard in flight as they fly from tree to tree.

Swallow – Wood Swallow and Welcome Swallow. The Welcome Swallow is unmistakable in flight, with its V-shaped wings and tail. They are often seen darting around in groups above the paddocks chasing flying insects.

Willy Wagtail – a common fixture in the park. Mainly sits atop the fence posts of the driveway near the lucerne paddock. Very funny to see them chasing off much bigger birds from ‘their territory’.

Nocturnal Birds

Barking Owl – seen about in trees at night by people spotlighting wombats. Remember when you are out at night looking for wombats, point your torch up into the trees. This bird has one of the most unforgettable calls of all the birds. Many people have been ‘spooked’ out by what they thought was a person screaming over in the forests on the other side of the river.
Tawny Frogmouth – often seen in the light of car headlights perched on fence posts and reflector posts by the side of the road.
Barn Owl – shine your torch around the hayshed or old farm buildings in the valley.

Bats

Micro Bat – very common visitor at night. Shine your torch up in the air to attract flying insects to the beam of light, then wait for the micro bats to come pick them off one by one.
Flying Fox – rarely seen, except when certain eucalypts are in blossom.