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Birding Bowra Part 2 – Pond & Homestead Area

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There are some great places to see birds just a few steps from the shearers cabin at Bowra Station.  Getting up at dawn, bringing a chair outside and watching the birds wake up is very rewarding!

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Black-winged Stilts are very common here.

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White-breasted Woodswallows

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Black-fronted Dotterel

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Another stilt

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Red-winged Parrot

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Rainbow Bee-eater

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Spoonbill

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Red-rumped Parrot

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Spotted Bowerbird with Bower

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Kangaroos

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Paddy Melons – food for hungry parrots

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We’ve all seen pet Budgies but nothing beats seeing them in the wild!  They have nests in the trees near the homestead.

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Red-rump Parrot

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Red-winged Parrot

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More Budgies

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Beautiful Red-winged Parrot posing nicely

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Red-rumps are usually in the trees around the pond

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Red-winged Parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus)

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The Red-Winged parrot (Aprosmictus erythropterus), is a parrot native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is found in grasslands, savannah, farmland, and woodland.

IMG_8396a IMG_0359 IMG_0366They have quite a large range throughout Queensland, Australia and even a small bit of Papua New Guinea.  I found it quite easy to see them at Lake Coolmunda, especially near the caravan park and near the shearer’s quarters at Bowra Station (blue dots).

RWPrangeLEARN MORE ABOUT RED-WINGED PARROTS

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Wonderful close up of this bird, seems to be a juvenile going by the feathering.

Birding Lake Coolmunda Caravan Park & Surrounds

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The area between the Cunningham Highway to roughly the railway tracks has plenty of birdlife.

Coolmunda2Once again, it was a great place to look fro parrots!  Red-winged Parrots were hanging around just outside the caravan park while Scaly-breasted Lorikeets & Crested Pigeons were easily found inside the park.

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The stretch of road just opposite this fancy house is good for Red-Rumped Parrots foraging in the grass.

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The grassy area just outside the park was also good for fairywrens.  I was a bit far from the bush they were hanging out in so had to zoom quite a bit.  At first I was thinking they were all Superb Fairy-wrens.

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Zooming in on this photo showed that I had also found a flock of White-winged Fairy-wrens!

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And a Black-shouldered Kite put on an amazing display of hunting.  He hovered like a ……………………. well a kite!

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Aha, spotted something!

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The kite swooped quickly and withdrew to a pole holding a rat.  I was so impressed I would have gladly offered him a job keeping my home free of rats if I could be sure that was all he would eat!

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