The following walk reports may include locations subject to restricted access. It may not be open to the public and you would not be authorised to visit the location without approval of the landowner. Our walking groups obtain permission where required for these walks.
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We had excellent weather for our first bird walk of the year and 14 people turned up at the Landcare Centre on Hartley Road to participate in our new project – recording birds seen and heard on or around the various Tamborine Mountain Landcare sites.
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Our October Bird Walk was attended by 8 members and one visitor. The main walk for the day was to the Lower Beechmont Conservation Area at Clagiraba followed by morning tea/lunch near the Hinze Dam. Some of us continued on to Beechmont to bird along South West Road. We had a final stop at Sharp Park, Canungra. The intermittent drizzling rain didn’t matter, as the cheerful mood and excitement of the group made for a wonderful day out.
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Nine members attended our wader day out led by Pat, our wader expert. Report photos Gail. It was an early start, meeting at the VIC at 6am and then travelling to the Port of Brisbane. On arrival we saw a few birds including the lovely Double-barred Finch, but no waders so we moved on to the Wynnum Esplanade. A large group of waders was madly feeding in the mud in and around a rocky outcrop; mostly Bar-tailed Godwits, some in their beautiful chestnut-coloured breeding plumage, Grey-tailed Tattlers and Great Knots. Several Pied Oystercatchers were feeding amongst the waders and calling.
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Four keen birdos started our walk at Kaiser Road - Jim, Jan, David, Gloria and Gail. It had rained earlier in the morning but we were hoping to see the sun...Lots of Whip birds and Lewin Honeyeaters plus a couple of Fantail Cuckoos were at the top of Kaiser Road. We drove down half way; could already hear two Albert Lyrebirds and saw loads of yellow-faced Honeyeaters.... We drove to the end to enjoy the strong calls of the very close Albert Lyrebird.
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The July 2016 expedition turned out to be surprisingly fruitful, bearing in mind this is usually the worst birding month of the year in terms of species and we covered only the small area from Beaudesert to what is now called Wyaralong. We got a very creditable count of 83 species which was a lot more than most of us had expected. Our focus was on Old Beaudesert Road and the area just east of it around the top end of Lake Wyaralong, though we included all birds seen along the Beaudesert-Boonah Road.
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Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)
