Upper Redwood Park

Having spent a lot of time in Redwood Park in 2020 and early 2021 to do our study of the birdlife of the park, it was fun to revisit some of those sites.

Five of us assembled for the outing and given that Redwood is on the range, and we weren’t needing to do the full amount of surveys that we did for the earlier report, the plan was to just focus on sites in the upper reaches of the park. This is sites 1, 2, 3 and 9 from the original study, which are all accessible from the Bridge Street entrance.

In the original 12 month survey we counted 56 species in the 4 sites, on this day there was only 26 counted, which underlies the importance of doing longer term studies in order to get a more accurate picture of the species present.

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike	Coracina novaehollandiae
Brown Cuckoo-Dove	Macropygia phasianella
Eastern Whipbird	Psophodes olivaceus
Eastern Yellow Robin	Eopsaltria australis
Galah	Eolophus roseicapilla
Golden Whistler	Pachycephala pectoralis
Grey Shrike-thrush	Colluricincla harmonica
Laughing Kookaburra	Dacelo novaeguineae
Lewin’s Honeyeater	Meliphaga lewinii
Little Lorikeet	Glossopsitta pusilla
Olive-backed Oriole	Oriolus sagittatus
Pied Butcherbird	Cracticus nigrogularis
Pied Currawong	Strepera graculina
Rainbow Lorikeet	Trichoglossus moluccanus
Red-backed Fairy-wren	Malurus melanocephalus
Regent Bowerbird	Sericulus chrysocephalus
Rufous Fantail	Rhipidura rufifrons
Scarlet Honeyeater	Myzomela sanguinolenta
Silvereye	Zosterops lateralis
Striated Pardalote	Pardalotus striatus
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo	Cacatua galerita
Variegated Fairy-wren	Malurus lamberti
White-browed Scrubwren	Sericornis frontalis
White-naped Honeyeater	Melithreptus lunatus
White-winged Triller	Lalage tricolor
Wonga Pigeon	Leucosarcia melanoleuca

It was an enjoyable morning and with time and weather on our side we decided to head down further off the range and explore some of the tracks and areas around sites 4 and 5. As most of these tracks aren’t well known and are rarely used, they had since become fairly over grown, but were still navigable. We didn’t record the birds we saw here, but enjoyed our look around. This Olive-backed oriole resting quietly was probably the highlight of this area.