Wintertime at Terranora Broadwater

Variegated Fairy-wren strutting his stuff

We decided to do a "local" bird trip today, and headed south to New South Wales (20 minutes away) to visit the Terranora Broadwater in Tweed West.

It was a good day--54 species!

This lost-looking cattle egret didn't know what to do...where are his cows? Have they gone to an Indonesian abattoir?






A pretty Grevillea in a the house at the end of the path where we turn around. Something is always blooming here, this day there were alot of raucous Rainbow Lorikeets in the birdbath and sipping nectar amongst the Grevilleas.















The King Parrots were quietly going about their business in the rainforest section.

Today's bird list (54 species!)

Australian Brush-turkey

Australian Wood Duck

Little Pied Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Australian Pelican

Eastern Great Egret

Intermediate Egret

Cattle Egret

Striated Heron

White-faced Heron

Australian White Ibis

Royal Spoonbill

Eastern Osprey

Whistling Kite

Black-winged Stilt

Crested Tern

Silver Gull

White-headed Pigeon

Spotted DoveI

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Emerald Dove

Crested Pigeon

Bar-shouldered Dove

Wompoo Fruit-Dove

Rainbow Lorikeet

Australian King-Parrot

Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Laughing Kookaburra

Sacred Kingfisher

Rainbow Bee-eater

Variegated Fairy-wren

White-browed Scrubwren

Lewin's Honeyeater

Noisy Miner

Scarlet Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Rose Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Eastern Whipbird

Golden Whistler

Rufous Whistler

Little Shrike-thrush

Magpie-lark

Grey Fantail

Willie Wagtail

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

Varied Triller

Australasian Figbird

Pied Butcherbird

Pied Currawong

Torresian Crow

Mistletoebird

Welcome Swallow

Silvereye