Wednesday 10th October -Bird watching North East of Berri - Chowilla and Danggali

Wednesday 10^th October

Chris walking with the guide

The vehicle in which we traveled. It is newly a built Land Cruiser but it has manual wind down windows and no central locking as it is built for the mining industry who want less theings to go wrong in the dusty outback.

Is this the rare bird? Variegated (Purple Backed) Fairy Wren

Is this Major Mitchell's Cockatoo the rare bird?

No of course it is this less than visually spectacular Red Lored Whistler that is the rarest of the three!

Day off the bike today with a day out driven and led by professional bird guide who lives here in Berri. There are a couple of very range restricted birds to be seen near here and he makes a living showing them. When I say near, it involved dirt track driving in a 4WD vehicle for 50 or more Km out and even further back.

We were picked up from our hotel at 6.15am and head off to look for the birds. We would certainly never have seen them on our own.

Some good views of some good birds but also missed a couple too. It is very dry and this affects the birds’ ranges and some birds have not come to this area this year. Up to 20 Emus seen which is a high number and again might be because it is so dry. See our first Eastern Red Kangaroos of the trip, the ones we’ve seen before have been Western Greys.

0 km today in 0 hours 0 minutes – an average of 0 kph. Total so far 3025.86  km