Thursday, September 22, 2016

6 Jun 2016 Fine Feathers tour Port Douglas

2016 was our second trip in successive year to PD and our second day trip with Del Richard and his awesome Fine Feathers full day tour.

Del has been around these parts for decades. He knows where to go, what to see and how to get the birds to appear using electronic or manual bird song imitations, to get the dudes to fly out of the trees and see what is going on. We saw 89 species in a day, many of which were new to us. Below is a short sample of some of the rarer birds:-




















Bush stone curlew















Double eyed fig parrot




















Dusky honeyeater




















Forest kingfisher




















Goulds bronze cuckoo













Horsfields bronze cuckoo



















Great bowerbird in his bower




















Female leaden flycatcher




















Lemon bellied flycatcher











Spectacled monarch














A rare white browed crake




















Yellow bellied sunbird




















Yellow honeyeater

















Yellow oriole

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