Three Greys Trip _ 02

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Banded Whiteface Aphelocephala nigricincta

Santa Theresa Road, Alice Springs

Grey-fronted Honeyeater Ptilotula plumula

Santa Theresa Road, Alice Springs

Mulga Parrot Psephotus varius

Santa Theresa Road, Alice Springs

Australian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles cristatus
Alice Springs

Slaty-backed Thornbill Acanthiza robustrirostris
Alice Springs

Spinifexbird Megalurus carteri
Ewaninga

Dusky Grasswren Amytornis purnelli
Stuart Highway, Barrow Creek

Black-chinned Honeyeater (Golden-backed)  Melithreptus glares laetior

Fork-tailed Swift  Apus pacificus
Barkly Highway

Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
A resident at Barkly River Homestead

Phaesant Coucal Centropus phasianinus
Barkly Highway

Going South now -- 01

There had been a lot of rain and subsequent flooding in country NSW so I decided to head west from Cairns and go home via Alice Springs. Two nights were spent at Cumberland Dam just west of Georgetown on the Savannah Way which links Cairns to Broome. Cumberland Dam is a favoured grey-nomad-rest-stop on the east-west run. It is pretty good with shelters, space and new loos.

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
This bird was doing a great Nankeen Kestrel hover.

Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii
being harassed by a woodswallow

Cotton Pygmy-goose Nettapus coromandelianus

Young male Cotton Pygmy-goose

Double-barred Finch Taeniopygia bichenovii

Green Pygmy Goose Nettapus pulchellus

Pheasant Coucal Centropus phasianinus
being harassed by a Willie Wagtail

Red-backed Kingfisher
Todiramphus pyrrhopygius

Rufous-throated Honeyeater
Conopophila rufogularis

Squatter Pigeon
Geophaps scripta peninsulae

Their forte is quickly walking away! "What? Me? No way guv."

Yellow Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavus

Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavescens