Birding Bowra Part 1 – Road To Homestead Area

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Tara

Since there are so many places to see birds, I am breaking this down into several parts. The first area to explore is the part where you first enter Bowra Station at the letterbox and drive the main road to the homestead – about 5 or 6 km. This is a fantastic area for parrots, as you can see from the photos below we saw many species just in this area such as Cockatiels, Mallee Ringecks, Galahs, Major Mitchell Cockatoos, Mulga Parrots and various Honey-eaters, an Emu and of course lots of kangaroos! I also saw a Bluebonnet flying away at the speed of light near the gate.

Bring boots as sometimes you have to walk through the bush!

Kangaroos Everywhere!

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Tara

There’s no escaping them, not that most visitors to Yanchep would want to. Western Grey Kangaroos are literally everywhere!

They greet you as you drive into the property.

They are all over the lawn.

They come close to your room!

This is where you come to get those up-close shots of wild kangaroos to make your friends jealous! They are used to people taking photos and are pretty calm about it.

Kangaroos & Cockatoos – The Road To Yanchep

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Tara

After leaving Kalbarri, we drove through the National Park and met up with route 1 headed south going through Gerladton. Here are some of the highlights we encountered along the way.

Kangaroos still within the park boundaries.

Red-tailed Black Cockatoos just south of the park.

Carnaby’s Cockatoos – not sure of exact location but about 2 hours before we reached Yanchep.

Dryandra Woodland, Western Australia

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Tara

Dryandra Woodland offers amazing birding only a couple hours drive from Perth! Use your miles to get here and then hire a car so you can explore this beautiful park on your own.

Although you could visit Dryandra Woodland as a day trip from Perth, I highly recommend staying a night or two here so you can visit all the water holes and birding areas. You can stay either in the park or in Narrogin, about a half hour’s drive from Dryandra.

The Lion’s Dryandra Village has the advantage of being right inside the park so no commuting and you can easily do the night tour at Barna Mia. You do need to be completely self-sufficient and bring your own food and bed linens.

Otherwise you can stay in the closest town of Narrogin where there are several options such as Bella’s Country Place (where we stayed-my review), Albert Facey Motel & Narrogin Motel.

The official park website has a brochure you can download. I have marked some prime birding location in yellow on the screenshot below. The Old Mill Dam was the best place, I personally saw several Western Rosellas, Australian Ringnecks, Rainbow Bee-eaters and more (see bird list links below).

Dryandra birding spots

The bird list is very impressive and Frank O’Connor’s website has some great location details complete with co-ordinates for your GPS. Eremaea also has a bird list for Dryandra Woodland.

Here are some photos I took at Dryandra Woodlands.

Australian Ringneck

Common Bronzewing

Scarlet Robin wants a bath

Some New Holland Honey-eaters join in.

TBD

Western Rosellas wait for the chance to drink. I was really happy to see them after I saw a video that they were disappearing.

Although this Ringneck didn’t approach too close to the Rosellas, they still flew off when he was joined by others. It’s clear the Ringneck is the dominating species.