Brandy Creek Walk 02-14

Brandy Creek Walk 02-14

WCL has started a program of regular “walks with nature” for those who enjoy spending time in the bush and recording what is encountered. 

We hope that this activity will help spread awareness and appreciation of the Whitsunday region’s natural environment and act as a record of our local species for the future.

The species lists and photos below are from a walk that six of us took recently on the Kingfisher Track at Brandy Creek in the Conway Range. 

Further walks are planned for the future; if you are interested in joining in give Graham Armstrong a call on 0416-658-047.

Birds Recorded (N=23)

Orange-footed Scrubfowl

Rose-Crowned Fruit-Dove

Wampoo Fruit-Dove

Emerald Dove

Brown Cuckoo Dove

Pied Imperial Pigeon

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Little Bronze Cuckoo

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher

Noisy Pitta

Brown Gerygone

Brown Thornbill

Dusky Honeyeater

Lewin’s Honeyeater

Eastern Yellow Robin

Lemon-bellied Flycatcher

Little Shrikethrush

Spectacled Monarch

Varied Triller

Figbird

Black Butcherbird

Silvereye

Red-browed Finch

Reptiles Recorded (Number of individuals)

Major Skink (Bellatorius frerei) – (3)

Blue-throated Carlia (Carlia rhomboidalis) – (several)

Lemon-barred Forest Skink (Eulamprus amplus) – (2)

Diamond-shielded Sunskink (Lampropholis adonis) – (1)

Hannah’s Shadeskink (Saproscincus hannahae) – several – (1)

Northern Dwarf Crowned Snake (Cacophis churchilli) –(1)

Red Bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) – (1)

Participants

Graham Armstrong

Jan Armstrong

Carlos Bueno

Paul Horner

Michelle Summersgill

Denise Summersgill