We hired a guide to take us out for a day of birding. He picked us up at 5 am for a drive from Songbirds to Lamington National Park.
It's a large park one mountain range away from Tambourine.
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On the way up, we saw several pretty-faced wallabies. That is their real name, but they are also called whiptail. Both names are pretty accurate.
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We stopped at a fig tree outside the park first and saw many birds including the Regent Bowerbird.
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A Golden Whistler and a Black-faced Monarch were also present.
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Lamington is one of the few places to see Albert's Lyrebirds and our guide found one for us. This required being well off the walking track into dense woods, a little tough on those that don't like frogs and creepy stuff, (Chris) but definitely worth it!
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He was also useful in getting Mike closer to a varigated fairy-wren. Chris had good looks at one at a prior bird outing on our own, but Mike didn't get a good photo that time.
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Some of the birds at Lamington are too used to people and expect hand-outs. Chris was really surprised when a white-browed scrubwren flew onto her outstretched hand as she was pointing to show how close they were to us.
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The Crimson Rosella was actually a bit of a pest at lunch trying to get our food. Some people at another table fed one a French Fry.
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On the drive back our guide, Barry, told us about the life saving surf club restaurants all along the Gold Coast so we tweeked our plans a bit to include a half day there.
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