BIRDING PA KIRCHNER RESERVE

Today my dad and I re-visited the reserve I bike-rode in the other day (see 'BIRDING A REGIONAL PARK BY BIKE), but walked instead of rode our bikes.

We started walking from the front of my house. In the area around Madeline Court (the road on which my house is) I saw two common starlings (an introduced pest from Europe), a few common mynas and a house sparrow. From there I walked onto Monte Carlo Drive, where a few rainbow lorikeets, a few common mynas and a white-plumed honeyeater were seen.

Along Buckley Street, I managed to spot two New Holland honeyeaters, lots of common mynas, a few starlings, a few spotted doves, two crested pigeons, a few white-plumed honeyeaters and a single song thrush. In the area along Buckley Street with the eucalypts, I managed to spot a white-plumed honeyeater, two red wattlebirds, two red-rumped parrots and a bird that I have only seen in the Avondale Heights Area once before- the crimson rosella.

The cheapest way to get your antenna fixed- dove-patrol!

A red wattlebird doing a stunt

A male red-rumped parrot- adore the colours

A crimson rosella- look for the red blob in the eucalyptus

After enjoying the birds along Buckley Street, we crossed the road and went down a very steep hill. We turned left and walked along Steele Creek, where we saw the 'mynas attack on the graffitied tank!!!' We crossed another road and made it to PA Kirchner Reserve. There were trillions of white-plumed honeyeaters, a few Willie wagtails, some little wattlebirds, a few red wattlebirds and some house sparrows.

A white-plumed honeyeater

A little wattlebird. This bird can be distinguished from the larger red wattlebird by its darker grey-black plumage with more prominent white streaking and, most distinguishably, its chestnut wing-patches which are only visible when it is flying.

Willie wagtail

After seeing these birds, we headed home with a lot of images.