First lifer of 2021 - Square-tailed Kite

Recently I went for a walk in Belair National Park. I saw my first ever Square-tailed Kites, as well as some other nice birds and some kangaroos. 

Square-tailed Kite, Belair National Park 

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Playford Lake, Belair National Park 

Belair National Park Jan 2017

This morning I went for a long walk in the Belair National Park, just to see what I could find, no particular target species. I saw my first Grey Currawongs for the year, another white-naped honey eater and 3 striated pardalotes which I only just ticked off yesterday. I walked along the Microcarpa track and then the Waterfall Hike. I saw a total of 25 bird species, and several kangaroos and koalas.

My favourite sighting of the day was a pair of Tawny Frogmouths! I haven't seen any for ages, so it was really great to see these two, especially since they were clearly visible and not too high up in the the tree.

The Emus of Belair National Park

Tuesday was a lovely sunny day, and I had most of the day off, so I headed off to Belair National Park where I met up with my new birder friend Lauren, and we spent a good 7 hours wandering around looking for feathered creatures.

I ended up with a list of 31 species for the day, and for me the highlight was seeing two emus! Some people might see these all the time, but I hardly ever see them in the wild, let alone this close! The closer of the two was no more than five metres away from us, and didn't seem the slightest bit bothered by us snapping away in its presence.

Emu, Belair National Park

Emu, Belair National Park

Emu, Belair National Park

Emu, Belair National Park

Aside from these magnificent birds we saw a lot of smaller birds, including yellow-faced honeyeaters, eastern spinebills, white-browed scrubwrens, straited thornbills, and plenty of superb fairywrens.

Another cool bird that I don't see all that often, I saw two of at Belair - Fan-tailed Cuckoos.

Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Belair National Park

Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Belair National Park

 Apart from birds, we also spotted four koalas, and two kangaroos.

Koala, Belair National Park

Eastern Grey Kangaroo Belair National Park

All up, it was a really good day, and we didn't leave until the sun was setting and we started getting worried about getting locked in to the car park, plus we were running out of light for decent photos!