Birding at the Burpengary

Took my mum to the Environmental Education Center at Burpengary, well the surrounding bushland around it, to see what birds were around.

I first discovered this area when they did a night nature walk last month. I took my camera then too, but as there were 70 people including young kids, anything that would have been around was long gone. 

We tried Saturday morning but the rain kept us away so when the weather was gorgeous on Sunday, I said lets try again today. 

Started out with Brown Honeyeaters, Noisy Miners, Noisy Firarbirds and a few Straw-necked Ibis et. It was a lovely walk which follows Burpengary Creek. There were a lot of birds calling but it was hard to photograph them in the thick foliage which was also very dark. 

I went away with 196 shots and deleated 176.

I was fairly happy with these and was surprised how well they actually turned out.

Hope you enjoy!

White-Throated Honeyeater - There were a number of these fitting around the trees, hanging upside down and chasing each other around. Had to wait patiently for one of them to finally come down and perch on an open branch, even if it was for only a split second.

Spangled Drongo - Hear this one before we saw him. He landed on this branch and started a preening session.

Rufous Fantails - There were a pair of these chasing each other around. This one stopped to check us out.

Little Wattlebird

Female Rufous Whistler - There were alot of these and Golden Whisters but this was the only decent photo I managed to get. As it was there was something in the way whick left a white blur at the bottom so I decided to put a light Vignette around the whole pic, just for something different.

Spectacled Monarch - By far my favourite pic of the day. This was another case of wait until he came out into the open and again just for a split second. You can see how dar the background was, making it hard to take photos that wern't blurry or too grainy.