BIRDING GUIDE Omeo On the web at www.birdlife.org.au/locations/ birdlife-east-gippsland Postal Address Box 825 Bairnsdale, Victoria, 3875 Eastern Yellow Robin. Gary Smith Email
[email protected] Leaden Flycatcher. John Hutchison Other Brochures available: Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Bruthen & Nowa Nowa, Buchan, Lake Tyers, Lakes Entrance, Lindenow & Mitchell River National Park, Mallacoota, Marlo, Metung, Nicholson, Omeo and Paynesville. Bird Check Lists are available for Buchan Caves, Cann River, Den of Nargun, Fairy Dell, Gippsland Lakes, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Landing, Macleod Morass, Nyerimilang, Omeo, Oneonta, and Raymond Island. Marlo and Mallacoota have 2 Updated May 2018 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds). Birdwatching around Omeo 3. Upper Livingstone 5. The Glen Wills Loop - as described in DELWP High The small town of Omeo, surrounded by high mountain County Back Roads Tour Guide The Upper Livingstone Road starts off from the Cassilis ranges, is on the Great Alpine Road which Road on the south side of the Livingstone Creek. It is a dry links Bairnsdale with Bright and Wangaratta. This tour as the name suggests is an anti-clockwise loop dirt road and often corrugated. There may be good birding taking the Knocker Track, which is dry weather high along the creek to the site of rare Omeo Gums (E neglecta). clearance 2WD, via various forest types and elevations, 1. Omeo The roadside trees provide ample habitat for birds, as do from the Omeo Valley Road just north of Mitta Mitta River the tree hollows. A good variety of birds can be seen: Bridge to the Omeo Highway just north of Glen Wills.