A gravel road snakes up from the valley through rainforest for 12km or so before topping out onto a relatively flat area where the trees have been cleared and rank grass is growing in an area, say, three hundred metres by one hundred metres. I slowed down and stopped and there, without even having had time to switch the engine off, were some Blue-faced Parrot-finches in full view eating seeds on the top of long grass stems just a few yards from the car. Wow. Not that often you see a target bird so quickly, easily and predictably. Job done.
The alternatives now were ...
1) turn around and drive off to the next target, or
2) camp.
I decided the latter. Next morning I walked further along the track past the locked gate and saw Yellow-throated Scrubwrens in the company of both Bassian and Russett-tailed Thrushes, all to the accompaniment of Spotted Catbirds, Grey-headed Robins and no camera!
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| Blue-faced Parrot-finch Erythrura trichora |
In company with BFPFs were lots of other finch-type birds.
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| Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis |
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| Nutmeg Mannikin Lonchura punctulata |
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| Chestnut-breasted Mannikin Lonchura castaneothorax |
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| Grey-headed Robin Heteromyias cinereifrons |
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| Yellow-throated Scrubwren Sericornis citreogularis |
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