WA birds (twit twit no twitter)

Mitchell River NP new species sightings in bold.

Varied Sitella
Green pygmy-goose
Torresian Crow
White-throated Honeyeater
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Red-collared Lorikeet
Australian Hobby
White-quilled Rock Pigeon
Pied (Torresian) Imperial Pigeon
Red-winged Parrot
Spotted Harrier
Crimson Finch
Barred Honeyeater
Silver-crowned Friarbird
Red-backed Kingfisher
Pheasant Coucal
Leaden Flycatcher
Black Grasswren
Spangled Drongo
Whistling Kite
White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike
Olive-backed Oriole
Rainbow Pitta (cute!)
Partridge Pigeon
Dollarbird
Tawny Frogmouth

Australian Ringneck
Darter
Little Black Cormorant
White Cheeked Honeyeater
Red-capped Robin
Australian Shelduck
Tree Martin
Fairy Martin
Zebra Finch
White-winged Triller
Emu (+babies)
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
Straw-necked Ibis
Western Bowerbird
Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike
Little Pied Cormorant
Eastern Reef Egret
Singing Honeyeater
Pied Butcherbird
Ospry
Spinifex Pigeon
Mangrove Fantail
Red-capped Plover
White-winged Fairy Wren
Variegated Fairy Wren
Yellow-throated Miner
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Weebill (KiloMikeinLove!!!!)
Peaceful Dove
Painted Finch
Rufous Whistler
Blue-winged Kookaburra (photo taken by Annette's field tech last year)

Rainbow Bee Eater
Australian Bustard
Brown Falcon
Yellow White Eye
Mistletoe Bird
Double-barred Finch
Long-tailed Finch
Great Bowerbird
Brown Honeyeater
Rufous-throated Honeyeater
Little Friarbird
Gouldian Finch
Brahimy Kite
Greater Sand Plover
Brown Goshawk
Sharptailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Black-winged Stilt
Red-backed Fairy Wren
Caspian Tern
Bar-shouldered Dove
Great Egret
Black Kite
White-breasted woodswallow
Restless Flycatcher



haha, just kidding on the Gouldian Finch, Dianne. Just making sure you are doing your reading!

KiloMikeWhattheCrike?

Ah, nothing beats a good sweat. Especially when your clothes are drenched by 730 in the morning and you can barely keep your pants up with the humidity trying its hardest to pull them to the ground. Its coming up on three weeks that I've been up at Mitchell River National Park chasing quolls around the rocky countryside: Today, we caught one of the girls to check her radio collar and got to see this:I hope you are oohing and ahhing, because those are some damn cute quoll babies.


When I'm not exhausting myself with Annette searching for quolls I might do something like lay under the fan, read a book, wipe off my sweat mustache, bake a cake, watch a movie at Ranger John's house (AC, yay), watch Annette dance strangely or dance strangely for Annette, or go to the river via helicopter for a fishing trip:
The rangers and helicopter men did not catch any fish (hard to when you are laying around like these 'working' folk). But we saw CROCODILE tracks. Yes, crocodile.

Yesterday, the helicopter crew filled up a kiddie swimming pool and we went swimming (aka: sitting in one foot of water) for an hour so life continues to be pretty good up here in the hot hot hot heat.


Quote of last week:

"Quolls aren't as dumb as people say. They've learned to come into the house, get into the cookie jar, eat the cookies, then put the lid back on!" -Annette, who definitely didn't eat all the cookies I made and knew that I would never do such a thing either.