Recent tours to Mt Lewis have been turning up some really
good birds. We usually manage to get most of the Wet Tropics Endemics and
sometimes all 12. (Or 13 if you wish to include the Spotted Catbird which is
also found further north on Cape York Peninsula.)
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| Spotted Catbird |
The Tooth-billed Bowerbirds are still very active at
their respective display courts and can be heard calling all along the track.
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| Tooth-billed Bowerbird |
We have also seen Superb and Wompoo Fruit-dove, Topknot
Pigeons and Barred Cuckoo-shrike. Up to 5 flocks of Chowchilla are usually
encountered along the length of the track. Both the Bridled and Lewin’s
Honeyeaters are abundant and we have occasional sightings of the Eastern
Spinebill.
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| Lewin's Honeyeater |
Victoria’s Riflebird are also showing well. The hardest
of the endemics to find at the moment seem to be the Golden Bowerbird and the Pied Monarch.
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| Pied Monarch |
The recent rains have encouraged the fungi to grow and we
see some really fancy looking growths
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| Various Fungi photographed on Mt Lewis |
The Brush
Mistletoe, Amylotheca dictyophleba, and the Climbing Guinea Flower , Hibbertia scanders, are flowering at
present and add vivid splashes of colour to the usually green rainforest.
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| Brush Mistletoe, Amylotheca dictyophleba |
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| Climbing Guinea Flower , Hibbertia scanders |
The Yellow-breasted Boatbill is also frequently seen along the track
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| Yellow-breasted Boatbill |
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