WILSON'S PROM: LILLY PILLY WALK

The main walk we did in the park was the Lilly Pilly Nature Walk, departing from the Lilly Pilly Gully carpark and being 2.6 kilometres one way (with a 600 metre boardwalk circuit at the far end also). The reason I picked this walk was that it went through a variety of habitats (going through various eucalypt forests and ending in temperate rainforest) and was apparently a reliable site for brown gerygone (an uncommon bird in Victoria that I hadn't seen yet).
The first section of the walk didn't provide too many birds, with a single grey butcherbird, many red wattlebirds, many brown thornbills, an olive whistler, two overflying forest ravens, a grey shrike-thrush and many grey fantails.

This grey butcherbird was perched in a tree at the beginning of the walk

However as we went on the birdlife became more evident, with eastern yellow robins, superb fairy-wrens, white-browed scrubwrens, scarlet robins, golden whistlers, white-throated treecreepers and a single rufous whistler all visible.

This eastern yellow robin was extremely friendly and allowed close looks

At one point in the walk there were about 5 golden whistlers in trees around us

As the walk moved into rainforest these birds slowly stopped appearing and the forest was rather quiet. Then I realised that there was a small flock of lifer brown gerygones around us, and through the remaining rainforest and boardwalk we saw many of these. Heading back didn't really provide anything extra.

Brown gerygones appear quite common in the Lilly Pilly Gully rainforest

A view of a stream bridged by the rainforest boardwalk

SPECIES SEEN:
1. Superb Fairy-Wren
2. White-Browed Scrubwren
3. Brown Thornbill
4. Brown Gerygone
5. Red Wattlebird
6. Scarlet Robin
7. Eastern Yellow Robin
8. White-Throated Treecreeper
9. Australian Magpie
10. Grey Butcherbird
11. Grey Shrike-Thrush
12. Olive Whistler
13. Rufous Whistler
14. Golden Whistler
15. Forest Raven
TOTAL: 15
LIFERS: 1