BIRDING GUIDE , Nungurner and Colquhoun Regional Park

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Topknot Pigeon Gary Smith Postal Address Box 825 , , 3875

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Beautiful Firetail. Ken Russell

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Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Bruthen & Nowa Nowa, Buchan, Lake Tyers, Lakes Entrance, Lindenow & Mitchell River National Park, Mallacoota, Marlo, Metung, Nicholson, and Paynesville.

Bird Check Lists are available for Buchan Caves, Cann River, Den of Nargun, Fairy Dell, Lakes, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Landing, Macleod Morass, Nyerimilang, Omeo, Oneonta, and . Marlo and Mallacoota have 2 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds). Updated May 2018 Birdwatching around Metung, Nungurner A drive right along the Loop Road is full of potential, You will see their scratchings and may find a mound and if and Colquhoun Regional Park including the Crested Shrike-tit, and the road intersects you are lucky you may get a sighting of the elusive bird back with Nungurner Jetty Road. itself.

1. Metung 3. Nyerimilang Heritage Park From the picnic area, cross the bridge where you will have

an option of three directions. The middle track will take As you enter Metung along the Metung Road, beautiful Further east along Nungurner Road is the turn off to you back to the highway and the Forestec complex. The Bancroft Bay is on your left. It is worthwhile to park your Nyerimilang on the Kalimna West Road. Nyerimilang is a left-hand track follows Mississippi Creek downstream. The car and take a walk beside Bancroft Bay as you will see Parks Victoria property. Facilities available include toilets, right-hand track takes you upstream to Uncles Road, but the expected waterbirds: Cormorant, Coot, Gull, Tern picnic and BBQ area and a gift shop. you can cross over the road and continue for quite a and of course the wonderful Pelicans. Once in the distance. This track, known as The Discovery Trail, leads to village, park your car and continue to walk down Metung A visit to the bird hide at the dam and a walk through the the old quarry where the rock for the entrance walls at Road to its end at Shaving Point (you can also drive gardens, including the lookout with a view Lakes Entrance was obtained. The Discovery Trail down). As well as the lovely view you will once again see over Reeve Channel to Flannagan Island will produce an continues north to the East Gippsland Rail Trail. waterbirds and maybe a seal or dolphin. abundance of birds including: Grebe, Duck, Teal, Coot,

Spoonbill, Honeyeater, Eastern Whipbird, Egret, Pelican, Silvereye, Eastern Yellow Robin, Rose Robin, Kookaburra, The jetty area on Lake King is another interesting Tern the White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Whistling Kite, Eastern Weebill, Gerygone, Thornbill, White-browed Scrubwren location, especially if you walk along Beach Road, which Yellow Robin, Thornbill, Silvereye, Grey Shrike-thrush, and a variety of Parrot, Lorikeet and Honeyeater, follows the shore of Lake King. Australian Pied Bassian Thrush and possibly the Rose Robin. especially when the eucalypts are flowering, are all Oystercatchers frequent the rocks in this area. There is possibilities. potential for all sorts of sightings at various times of the The Scarlet Honeyeater is possible in summer as well as year: Honeyeaters, both White-faced and White-necked Rufous Fantails and Mistletoebirds. In summer Rufous Fantails Black-faced Monarch, Beautiful Herons, Egret, Thornbill, Superb Fairy-wren, and a Firetails and Crested Shrike-tits may be seen. Another variety of Cuckoos including occasionally the Channel- 4. Colquhoun Regional Park parking spot on Oil Bore Road gives further access to the billed Cuckoo in summer. Discovery Trail. Log Crossing Picnic Area

2. Nungurner Log Crossing is on the northern side of the Princes The Trestle Bridge

Highway and is accessed by turning north off the highway From Nungurner Road turn south into Nungurner Jetty at Uncles Road. Uncles Road is west of the Forestec Road, this takes you to a picnic area with toilets. Often The longest trestle bridge in the southern hemisphere, complex in the Colquhoun Regional Park. Travel an Azure Kingfisher is seen in the jetty area. Bell Miners which is no longer safe for use, is accessible from the approximately 2.2km along Uncles Road and turn right have invaded the area, unfortunately, but a walk up the Princes Highway via the Old Nowa Nowa Road. There are onto a track that takes you to the Log Crossing Picnic Area. hill of Loop Road and then taking the road on your right direcon signs at approximately 2.1 km south west of gives a great vantage point of Reeve Channel and Nowa Nowa. A number of walks can be undertaken from this area. Most Flanagan Island. Pelican, White-bellied Sea- Eagle, Black commonly heard but seldom seen are the Superb There is a small parking area and a public toilet at the west Swan as well as smaller birds that are found in the trees Lyrebirds that live in the forest. end of the bridge. Many species of forest birds will be and bushes. seen in this area.