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As we walked along Kaiser Road, we heard an Albert’s Lyrebird, Bar-shouldered Doves, Cicadabirds, Whipbirds and Pheasant Coucals. The rain made it difficult to use our binoculars at times but we managed to record 19 species (heard or seen) by the time we reached the paddock at the end of the road. It was very easy walking until then....
PYTHON ROCK, PAT’S BLUFF AND BRISTLEBIRD CREEK WALK
It was a windy and surprisingly cold day for this time of year. Julie, Susan and Gail set off at 6am for the start of the Python Rock track with Susan at the wheel and binoculars at the ready. On the way we saw Jacaranda trees in full bloom at Sarabah.
This familiar track yielded some pleasant surprises – notably a Yellow Robin’s nest complete with sitting bird, two Yellow-throated scrub-wren nests (unoccupied) and – thrill of thrills! – a male Paradise Riflebird
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With the start of the warmer weather our walk started at 6am. This early start did not deter 10 eager bird watchers to leave the mountain and head off to Coombabah Wetlands. We arrived at the car park around 7am and were welcomed by 6 Eastern Grey Kangaroos and a very irate Crow chasing a Channel-billed Cuckoo.
Coombabah Wetlands has a variety of habitats from open Eucalypt forest to Melaleuca swamps and a boardwalk which takes you through the mangrove area to a bird hide on Coombabah Lake. Read more in the pdf report.
A fine day at last after all the unseasonal rain! The five of us left Doughty Park at 6.10 am, headed down Goat track at the bottom of which we turned left and then right into the entrance of the Historic Railway tunnel. Continuing straight up the hill on that gravel road we wended our way up the Darlington Range Road. Alighted about a kilometre from the end and started our first 2 km ramble for the day along this lovely gravel road with it's views out over Coomera Valley and the Border Ranges.
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Susan had done a rekky two days before, accompanied by Julie. Julie suggested the beautiful Maroon Dam leg of the journey and Marg and Jeff suggested the wonderful Tamrookum Ck Rd. Thank you all for these generous tips.
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Copies of the excellent & definitive “ The Mistletoes of Subtropical Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria” by local authors John Moss & Ross Kendall now on sale at $27.50 from Mike Russell (5545 3601).
TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN FLORA & FAUNA by Russell, Leiper, White, Francis, Hauser, McDonald & Sims is now on sale at local outlets for $15.
Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)
