Birdingpals Trip Report

Trip Report Australia – October-November 2005
by Birdingpal Robert Hawkins

My wife, Linda, and I were accompanied on our trip to Australia by friends John and Martha Schwegman.  John is a retired botanist from Illinois, so he enjoyed your trees and plants as well as birds.  We arrived on 10 Oct 05 and departed on 11 Nov 05.

Here are the places we birded and people who helped us:
1.  Sydney area, with Birdingpal Barry LancasterB|
2.  Port MacQuarie
3.  Dorrigo National Park
4.  Narang area, including Lamington National Park, with Birdingpal Hans Beste and his wife Judy
5.  Cairns
6.  Michaelmas Cay
7.  Atherton Tableland, Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge, Lake Eacham Mareeba Wetlands
8.  Daintree area, with professional guide Ellen Terrell
9.  Cape Tribulation
10.  Darwin area, indluding Mary River, Fogg Dam, Kakadu National Park, and Yellow Water Billabong
11.  Melbourne area, with Birdingpal Richard Nowotny
12.  Western Treatment Plant near Werribe, with Birdingpal David Torr

We recorded 282 species in total and here are a few.