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Bird Watching SE-QLD
Australia
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2022
We are a group of bird watchers in South-East Queensland, Australia. We meet for regular walks and welcome all age and skill levels.
Keep up to date with our activities on Facebook and Meetup.com. Happy birding :-)
Bird Watching around Cairns, Australia
Join me on a tropical bird watching tour through Cairns, Australia! I'll take you to my favourite birdwatching spots where we'll encounter a wide variety of new and familiar bird species (with a twist).
In the search for birds, we'll explore: a beach, gardens, a wetland, an island and a rainforest.
Whether you’re a seasoned birdwatcher or just starting out, there’s something for everyone.
Some birds you'll see: kingfishers, fairywrens, butcherbirds, kookaburras, and many more!
Tip: you'll get a more immersive experience (bird calls) by listening with headphones. This video is available in 4K.
eBird Trip Report:
ebird.org/tripreport/272512
Chapters:
00:00 - Start
00:21 - Botanic Gardens
03:00 - Centenary Lakes
06:24 - Cairns Esplanade
13:11 - Cattana Wetlands
17:50 - Redden Island
21:37 - Lake Barrine
In the search for birds, we'll explore: a beach, gardens, a wetland, an island and a rainforest.
Whether you’re a seasoned birdwatcher or just starting out, there’s something for everyone.
Some birds you'll see: kingfishers, fairywrens, butcherbirds, kookaburras, and many more!
Tip: you'll get a more immersive experience (bird calls) by listening with headphones. This video is available in 4K.
eBird Trip Report:
ebird.org/tripreport/272512
Chapters:
00:00 - Start
00:21 - Botanic Gardens
03:00 - Centenary Lakes
06:24 - Cairns Esplanade
13:11 - Cattana Wetlands
17:50 - Redden Island
21:37 - Lake Barrine
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Learn to ID: Fairywrens of Australia
Very beautiful country great bird life
Awesome! My flight to Australia leaves in less than 2 weeks and Cairns will be my 2nd stop on my east coast trip! Very nice to see what to expect.
Really enjoyed the video! I loved the virtual tour style. Thank you for teaching me so much about the birds and how to identify them. So excited about my visit to Cairns next year, sadly only a day (cruise), not enough time! Looking forward to more videos.
Love love love the video !!! Please produce more !!!! ❤
Surely that was a Little/Striated Heron, rather than a Nankeen Night Heron.
Great video, enjoyed it.
Loved the video. I love your birdwatcher style. 👏🏻👏🏻
Now I really want to head back to Cairns on the next available flight!
Been looking forward to your Cairns YT. Excellent photography & commentary (as usual) plus the bonus of your own bird-calls. Thanks, Rob.
Thanks for watching. My own bird calls always make me laugh when reviewing the videos. If it helps people remember or laugh, that's good enough for me 🤣
Great video Rob, absolutely love the content. We were just up there the other day and got my life count up to 271, adding a whopping 59 species in 7 days. It truly is the spot to go for birders! 😂
59 lifers! That's amazing! Well done. I went on a tour of Atherton several years back and that was new species overload for me (I was relatively fresh to birding back then). So many great places to visit and Far North Queensland!
Thanks for another great video Rob.
Thanks Justin ☺️
Very helpful 🙏
❤your walks are awesome❤
Pied Butch has the best song
I saw my first black cockatoo here! the yellow tailed ones :)
Wow. I didn't know they visited this site. That's great 😃
Can I ask again what camera do you use please
Hi Philip, Nikon P950 🙂
Should do Toohey Forest, Mt Cootha, Mt Cotton, Daisy Hill Conservation Park and Karawatha Forest soon too.
Thank you. Brisbane has so many good places to check out! I saw some Glossy Black Cockatoos at Karawatha Forest, nice place.
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 I live out near Rochedale, heaps of greenery getting knocked down for townhouses unfortunately but the wren population is sublime as well as the bush wallaby. Honey eaters too but all getting plowed down for houses. Can still walk around the streets and see a superb fairy Wren on every flowering tree though. As well as a green honey eater looking fellows but too quick to photograph and ID.
yoooo minnippi goated for bird watching i used to go there with a group - detlaf and karen were goated guides
Agree, Minnippi is great. I wasn't aware of other guided walks there. Sounds like it was a fun time 😊
Surprised you never saw a crested pigeon, when we were kids we always called them Topknots and we get a lot in the suburbs (though not as many as I used to see in Eyre Peninsula where I grew up.) You also see Sulphur Crested cockies a lot, they love to gnaw at young pine cones. Or maybe those two species are too ubiquitous to feature?
I saw a few Sulphur-crested and Crested Pigeons on the trip, but they were too far away to get decent footage of them. I think they stopped calling Ocyphaps lophotes the "Topknot Pigeon" because that common name was already claimed by Lopholaimus antarcticus. My non-birder friends call the Cresteds the "Punk Pigeon" 😂
Loving the educational vids ☺️ Would love one about the Thorn-bills of Australia 😄Some tricky ones out West…I reckon it’d be worth doing one vid about them some day…so many thornbills I know but…just a thought..you break everything down so well ☺️
Thank you. Thornbills are a real challenge! An ID video for them is great idea. I've seen all of Australia's except Mountain and Slaty-backed Thornbill. Seeing them is hard, getting a photo is difficult at best!
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 I hear ya…I still haven’t seen Slaty backed…someday 🙌🏼
Great video enjoyed this
Thank you. Great channel name 🙂
That was very enjoyable to watch & educational Thankyou ☺️ I’m VERY impressive with the Zoom range of your camera setup… What do u use exactly if I may ask? Am looking into getting something with the zoom range that still looks nice and clear at its furthest reach like yours?
Thanks Kirri. I use a Nikon P950, it's a bridge camera (x83 optical zoom). It doesn't have the incredible quality or focusing features of the bulkier SLR/mirrorless cameras + lens, but it's easy to carry around for long periods of time. There's also the Nikon P1000, which has even further zoom, but that is heavier and any additional gain is barely usable due to atmospheric distortion and minor camera shake. PS: I don't get commission from Nikon (I should, lol), it's just a great camera for birding. All the best with your photography :-)
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 AWESOME…Thankyou so much for the info …it really helps me guage what to get next. I only have Prime lenses which are awesome but heavy if I just wanna go for a quick birdwatch & video what I see…Thanks again for info ☺️☺️
I love this I live about 5 minutes driving!!
I have to say, if someone called me Hoary-Headed Grebe I would be slightly offended. It's like a guy called his significant other that under his breath and he had to make the fastest excuse possible, saw the bird and said, "not you love, the bird."
That's hilarious! She could respond "I heard that you Bustard!"
Pelicans do try to swallow anything they can
I'll have to sit and watch more patiently next time 😊 They are so peaceful to watch on the water.
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 The most I have seen them do about from fish is a gull once...but its more of a threat than trying to eat ig but some of the footages show such behaviour, but for the most part the pelican species (spot-billed) is peaceful indeed
i loved watching this! especially as a local bird enthusiast who has been to this spot. last time i went here, my partner and i rescued a bar-tailed godwit that was injured on the road. seeing that bird up close was very special. keen to see more videos! 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it. Sorry to hear about the Bar-tailed Godwit, I hope it recovered ok. It is truly amazing to actually see/feel how small some of the birds we watch are. I once saw a Lewin's Honeyeater up-close, it was so tiny! All the best in your adventures 🙂
Starting to get into bird photography. Live in SE QLD. Glad I stumbled on this channel. Subscribed.
Welcome aboard! All the best with the photography
Thank you ❤
These are really nice videos.
Thank you very much! 🙂
Whatever happened to the sparrow
Well on your way to a big year.
Fantastic, thanks. Would have loved you have also gone back and done the other track at the fork so we could have seen the whole area.
Next time! 🙂
Pleasant informative videos Rob. The Banks Street Reserve is near Alderley, close to Brisbane city....there is a lot of bushland and parks which follow Enoggera creek...may be worth a walk..!! Cheers.
Thanks for the tip. I haven't had much luck at Enogerra Creek but I'll give it another try 🙂
No worries, maybe the wildlife only work certain days!
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Brilliant.
Thank you for sharing. I'm going to spend my first visit to Brisbane next month. Hope to see you around.
Do you do walking tours?
Hi Ana, I don't do private tours but I run a free bird walk around Brisbane each month. Check out the Facebook page or Meetup for more details.
@@birdwatchingse-qld2253 Thank you, I just 'liked' the page. Only issue is 100's of people have said they're interested in the bird walk? Looks amazing but hopefully the walks can be a lot more intimate.
Yeah the numbers are getting a bit much. This month's had 45 attendees, but we still managed to see 73 species. I take "interested" with a grain of salt. Unfortunately Facebook doesn't provide the ability to limit number of rsvps. I don't have enough time to do private tours at this stage. Maybe once I retire from my day job 😅
Hello Rob! My husband and I will be visiting from the U.S. We are really enjoying your videos while trying to become familiar with the birds we will be seeing. You do a great job with pictures & commentary!!
Glad you both find them helpful. You'll be in for a birding treat visiting Australia (IMO Brisbane is the best city to visit, but I'm biased). Have a great time 😊
Enjoying listening to your videos , I find them very informative, I started bird watching in the last 6 months, thanking you for being easy to listen to
Thank you. Welcome to bird watching, you'll have a great time. We have many beautiful and interesting birds here 😊
Good spotting in a lovely place. You really know your birds. Gonya and Thanks mate Go well ok
Many thanks 🙂