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Red-browed Take your time and You will hear many more Look for signs of where birds Finches, Currawongs and nature may reward birds than you see. Some have been, for example: Bowerbirds form flocks. you with seeing: of the most characteristic Lyrebird dancing mounds and bird sounds of the Region are: scratched areas where they Winter Up to eight different have been feeding — chewed Male Superb Lyrebirds Lyrebirds, New Holland species of colourful parrot up Banksia cones dropped by calling for females and Honeyeaters, Powerful Owls, in one day including Sulphur- Black-Cockatoos — Owl and mimicking the other species Wedge-tailed Eagles and crested Cockatoo, Crimson Currawong regurgitated of the area during the Winter. many other species breed. Rosella and the Australian pellets — strips of bark and Night calls include Southern King-Parrot. The sharp cracks of Eastern wood hanging off branches Boobook and Powerful Owl, Whipbirds from dense where Black-Cockatoos have Up to 100 white Sulphur- Tawny Frogmouths and thickets of vegetation. fed on wood grubs — tracks crested Cockatoos whooshing Masked Lapwings. in the sand — dust bathing over the escarpment at Several species of Cuckoo, areas — moulted feathers Spring Wentworth Falls at dusk including the Channel-billed — bird bones — obvious and noisily choosing their Cuckoo and Eastern Koel, Many migrating birds return nests like the mud nests of roosting trees for the night. calling loudly through from Queensland and New the Summer. Magpie-larks (Peewees) and Guinea. Satin Bowerbird Thousands of honeyeaters Choughs — the stick nests display and mating season. The constant squawks migrating northwards in of Currawongs and Magpies Cuckoos arrive. Kookaburra of Red Wattlebirds during Autumn over the cliff tops — the camouflaged nests of calls increase. Concentration Autumn and Winter. of the Jamison Valley. Honeyeaters and Flycatchers of Honeyeaters in the Large flocks of one of our An excited chorus of — Satin Bowerbird bowers flowering banksias. biggest birds, the Yellow- dozens of Currawongs. surrounded by their collections of blue treasures. Summer tailed Black-Cockatoo, The morning songs of eerily calling as they fly Magpies, one of the most Cuckoos call loudly, their slowly across a valley. beautiful sounds of the young are being fed by their hosts. Many juvenile birds The comical behaviour Australian bush. experience disperse from their breeding of a family of White- The magnificent songs places. Nectar feeding birds winged Choughs in the of the Pied Butcherbird the seasonal congregate on Banksia Megalong Valley. in the Capertee Valley . serrata trees. Mixed species A ‘mixed species feeding The high-pitched sound changes feeding flocks begin to form flock’ of up to twelve of the Musk Duck at Lake It is ideal to visit our Region in late summer. different species of insect Wallace, Wallerawang at least four times during eating birds moving a year to experience the through the bush together. dramatic seasonal changes in Up to nine species our bird communities. Some Bird list of Honeyeater feasting of the events of the year are: For an extensive list of birds in the Blue Mountains, on the heathland banksias. Autumn Lithgow and Oberon Region Tree Martins, Yellow-faced ask at one of the local Visitor Honeyeaters, White-naped Information Centres or visit Honeyeaters, Spotted our website: Pardalotes and Tasmanian Photos: (Front cover) Crimson Rosella, (this page) Satin Bowerbird, Courtesy Martin van der Velden der van CourtesyMartin Bowerbird, Satin page) (this Rosella, Crimson cover) (Front Photos: Silvereyes migrate visitbluemountains.com.au northwards. Rose Robins, Glenbrook Transit of Venus Megalong Valley Hassans Walls Glen Alice Turn off Great Western Highway Soaring high above Lithgow Wander through the woodland Blue Mountains National Park at Woodford Avenue, then left Coachwood Glen is Hassans Walls Reserve which around the community hall and From Great Western Highway into Weroona Avenue and right into From Blackheath Station turn can be entered from both Doctors behind the church. follow signs to Euroka Road Woodbury Street. The walking track into Shipley Road and follow Gap Road and from Main Street. and the National Park entrance Look for: Crested Shrike-tit, White-winged leaves from the end of Woodbury signs down to Megalong Valley. Hassans Walls Lookout is one of (fees apply for cars). Chough, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Street and passes through open Coachwood Glen car park is on the most spectacular lookouts in Sacred Kingfisher, White-browed and Euroka Clearing forest down to wetter forest and left. This is the easiest rainforest the Region with views over the Grey-crowned Babblers, Little and Musk If driving, follow signs along a swamps, waterfalls and a creek. access in the Mountains. A 600m Hartley Valley, the Blue Mountains Lorikeets. In Spring and Summer look for the Rainbow Bee-eater. sealed road (approximately 5km) circular walking track winds and down the valley of the Cox’s (GPS: 33°43’40”S 150°28’21”E) through the rainforest. through open forest on sandstone, Walk Time: 2.5hrs River towards Wollongong. then open forest on shale to a Grade: Medium (GPS: 33°39’45”S 150°16’16”E) (GPS: 33°29’17”S 150°9’44”E) volcanic valley with scattered Blue Distance: 3km return Walk Time: 1hr Walk Time: 2hrs (Braceys Lookout) Gums. If walking, follow signposted Grade: Medium Grade: Easy Look for: Little Wattlebird, Beautiful Distance: 0.6km circuit track from first bend in road above Firetail, Brown Gerygone, Yellow-throated Distance: 7km return Glenbrook Creek.