A leisurely start before we returned to PAU for some last
minute birding. We checked the trees again for roosting frogmouths but couldn’t
find them, however much to our embarrassment the driver pointed them out in the
first tree we’d looked at! Anyway we got great views of three Marbled
Frogmouths, the first ones of the trip.
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| Marbled Frogmouth |
We had a similar selection of birds to
our first visit here but also added Plumed Whistling-Duck and Pied Heron to the
trip list.
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| Plumed Whistling-Duck |
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| Pied Heron |
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| Australian White Ibis |
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| Little Black Cormorant |
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| Comb-crested Jacana |
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| Masked Lapwing - another familiar Australian species |
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| Fawn-breasted Bowerbird |
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| Black-backed Butcherbird |
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| Intermediate Egret |
Most of the group left mid-morning for their flight to Brisbane
while Neil and I carried on with Max for another hour and a half.
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| Torresian Imperial Pigeon |
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| Grey-headed Manakins |
We managed
two new birds: a large flock of Grey-headed Manakin and a flyover Australian
Hobby before returning to Dixie’s for lunch. I then bade Neil farewell and went
to the airport for my flight to Manila and onward to London via Dubai.
It had been a superb trip, finishing with 251 species, of
which 96 were new and a total of 20 Birds-of-Paradise seen.
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