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| Saturday's walk: the red path being outbound while some members took the higher, green path back to the cars. |
It was a beautiful day for the June outing: warm with no wind and a
clear blue sky making it ideal for walking in the bush. The track to the valley
is 2.5 kilometres of the Shoreline Trail on the northern side of the lake. We
spent a little time at the Eastern Trailhead car-park where we saw plenty of
birds along the dam wall and in the car park, and an unusual fungi in the
garden bed.
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| Birdwatching in the eucalypt woodland |
The winding track beside the lake is gently undulating and passes
through mixed eucalypt woodland. The Spotted Gums (Corymbia maculata)
were in flower and the groundcover, Winter Apple (Eremophila debilis), was fruiting.
No frogs, lizards or mammals were seen on the day, however our fauna list totalled
50 species of birds and one butterfly.
BIRD LIST FOR SECRET VALLEY
Brown Quail, Australian Wood Duck, Pacific Black Duck, Hardhead, Australasian Grebe, Common Bronzewing, Bar-shouldered Dove, Australasian Darter, Great Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Australian Pelican, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, White-faced Heron, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, Dusky Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Masked Lapwing, Rainbow Lorikeet, Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, Little Lorikeet, Australian King-Parrot, Azure Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra, Superb Fairy-wren, Red-backed Fairy-wren, Variegated Fairy-wren, Striated Pardalote, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Noisy Miner, Scarlet Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, White-throated Honeyeater, Noisy Friarbird, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Golden Whistler, Rufous Whistler, Australian Magpie, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Torresian Crow, Restless Flycatcher, Magpie-lark, Jacky Winter, Tawny Grassbird, Silvereye, Welcome Swallow, Australasian Pipit.
BUTTERFLY: Wanderer.
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