Birdlife Southern Queensland - Darling Downs Local Branch
Main Range National Park is a massive national park in several sections, and is part of Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area. It is actually deceptively close to Toowoomba and we based ourselves at the Manna Gum camping ground, and surveyed a number of sites in the Goomburra Section of the park.
Key Biodiversity Areas is a global program strongly supported by BirdLife Australia (read more here); designations provide a focus for conservation effort but are not legally binding. For the past few years, the Darling Downs group of BirdLife Southern Queensland has been acting as Guardian for the Key Biodiversity Area described as Bunya Mountains and Yarraman KBA.
Maintaining something of a tradition for first excursion of the year, our local BirdLife group (8 participants) today visited Geham National Park.
Over the King’s birthday long weekend five of us stayed at the Myall Park Botanic Gardens and did surveys there and in surrounding areas of importance.
All up it was a fantastic long weekend with some really great birding!
On a fine but warm and humid Saturday our first outing for 2023 was to Geham National Park.
Our second excursion to Ravensbourne National Park as the Darling Downs group took place in balmy weather and spirits were high after so many trip cancellations over the past year or so due to wet weather.
Lockyer National Park is a lovely little national park near Helidon in the Lockyer Valley. It didn’t give up its secrets easily, but it’s definitely a park we’ll be visiting more often.
Cold and windy winter conditions but still some interesting sightings!
The Palms is a tiny patch of rainforest surrounded by farmland and woodland just north of Cooyar.
It was a cold morning (four degrees) when we set off but it turned out to be a very enjoyable and eventful morning.