BIRD WEEK DAY 5- THURSDAY

I woke up early again for the Duck Creek Road bus trip, to have another try for the spotted quail-thrush. We did not see the quail-thrush, but we did see collared sparrowhawks, red-browed treecreepers, leaden flycatchers and heard white-naped honeyeaters.

 A red-browed treecreeper
After returning to the resort and having breakfast, we then went on the 9-kilometer Stockyard Creek Walk. The first part of it went through a bit of Luke's farm, before coming to a dangerous cliff where we had to slowly and carefully walk along the edge. While walking, we saw a koala and a yellow-faced honeyeater before the track started to widen out.

 A koala
Then, a short distance along the track, we stopped at some trees where there were many different birds. We saw two varied sitellas, a spangled drongo, two cicadabirds and a female paradise riflebird!

 A cicadabird

A female paradise riflebird. The male is glossy black.
Finally, we made it to a ridge and had some juice and some apples for morning tea. We walked a short while along the ridge to look for the white-throated nightjar which apparently had a nest on the ridge, but we couldn't find that so we walked down until we got to a rainforest part of the track. In the rainforest we saw spectacled monarchs, topknot pigeons, pale-yellow robins, white-eared monarchs, little shrike-thrushes and wompoo fruit-doves. We also heard a noisy pitta, but couldn't spot it.

A spectacled monarch

After that, we walked 2 kilometers through an open pasture until we got to our bus. In a fruiting tree next to the bus were barred cuckoo-shrikes, australasian figbirds and a juvenile olive-backed oriole.

We then went back, had dinner and went to bed.