BIRD WEEK DAY 4- WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday we woke up late so we decided not to do the Early Morning Bird Walk. We wandered around the resort, going a short way along the Border Track to spot an owlet-nightjar before heading back to the resort for breakfast. At 8 am we left on the bus for the Western Lagoons Trip.
After getting down the mountain, we stopped at a park in the town of Canungra for a toilet stop. While there, we saw noisy friarbirds, pied butcherbirds and a blue-faced honeyeater.

 An immature pied butcherbird

A blue-faced honeyeater

After the toilet stop, we drove on until we came to the first few of the lagoons we were going to visit. They had only a few birds- pacific black ducks, hardheads and an eurasian coot. We stopped again at another lake to see the red-backed fairy-wren. A tawny grassbird was also seen, but it flew into the grass just a second after it was spotted.

A dollarbird that was seen perched on a wire beside the road

The female red-backed fairy-wren

We then headed to another lake with a few cormorants. In a lake nearby that lake, there were heaps of plumed whistling-ducks. In the bush around the lakes were many different birds. We saw a black-fronted dotterel crossing the road, as well as brown honeyeaters, double-barred finches, sacred kingfishers, yellow-rumped thornbills and even a pheasant coucal in a tree!

 A double-barred finch perched on a fence

A brown honeyeater

Then we went off to another few lakes. At the first two of these lakes, there were royal spoonbills, red-kneed dotterels, black-fronted dotterels, black-winged stilts and Australian wood ducks, as well as cisticolas and even a white-throated honeyeater!

A white-throated honeyeater sucking nectar from a flower

We stopped at another lake with far-off glossy ibis before finally stopping in Beaudesert for lunch. At the park in Beaudesert, among more common birds was a striped honeyeater and many little friarbirds, as well as a tawny frogmouth.

A little friarbird

Before going, we stopped at two more lakes. The first had straw-necked ibis, wood duck, chestnut-breasted mannikin, latham's snipe, little black and little pied cormorants, superb fairy-wrens, black-faced cuckoo-shrikes, common blackbirds and some other birds. The second had a jacana, some grebes, a white-faced heron and a few brown quail at the other side of the lake. All in all, we saw lots of birds.