After the cold weather of the last couple of days it was not
as disappointing to be heading home as I would’ve thought – not that it’s any
warmer in Adelaide at the moment! We took our time getting ready and left just
after 8:30am. We crossed into South Australia early in the afternoon, and
stopped off at a rest stop about 20km south of the border so that I could have
a look in the surrounding scrub. Turned out we picked a good spot and I saw a
few masked-woodswallows, a lot of black-faced woodswallows, one male crested
bellbird, a few crimson chats, and a lone black kite circling quite low above
the car park.
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| Black-faced Woodswallow, few km south of SA-NT border. |
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| Black Kite, few km south of SA-NT border |
We got to Marla just before 3pm, and while we waited for our
room to be ready we checked out the start of the Oodnadatta Track.
Once we were checked in, we went for a short drive, only two
or three km south of Marla and pulled over and I had a look in the roadside
vegetation to see if I could find anything interesting. I came across some
Splendid Fairy-wrens, including a few females, at least one eclipse male, and
one male in full breeding colour who just would not let me get a picture of him!
I also spotted a female red-capped robin who was a bit shy, I played the
species call from my phone and within seconds the male had come to check me out
and hung out for quite a while, allowing me to get a few decent shots.
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| Splendid Fairy-wren, Marla, SA. |
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| Red-capped Robin, Marla, SA. |
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| Red-capped Robin, Marla, SA. |
After a while we headed back, and later enjoyed a delicious
meal at the Marla Roadhouse.
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