Outing Report - Wharkuroogma Wetlands, Roadvale, 15 June 2019

Meeting in the leafy car park

About 30 members gathered in the car park of the Wharkuroogma Nursery. Claire Ekas welcomed us and gave a short history of the property. When Claire and her husband bought the property in the 70s there was hardly a tree on the place, and now there are thousands. These trees provide windbreaks and wildlife corridors and the Field Nats saw for themselves that many birds used these havens. The two large dams are known as an important wetland in south-east Queensland.

Australasian Darter (female)

                                                      

 

Great Cormorant

Restless Flycatcher

It was wonderful to see that the dams had enough water to attract many birds, and we spent a long time here enjoying the activity. After morning tea we walked around the upper dam keeping our eyes peeled for koalas, but none showed their faces this time. Lunch was munched in the verdant surrounds of the nursery.

Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus)

Enjoying lunch

Species Lists:

Nursery & Yards:

Birds: Crested Pigeon, Peaceful Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Superb Fairy-wren, White-throated Gerygone, Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Striated Pardalote, Lewin's Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Noisy Miner, Blue-faced Honeyeater, Golden Whistler, Rufous Whistler, Grey Shrike-thrush, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Torresian Crow, Magpie-lark, Double-barred Finch.

Butterflies: Lesser Wanderer (Danaus petilia), Common Crow (Euploea core).

Other Invertebrates: European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), Steelblue Ladybird (Halmus chalybeus), Granny's Cloak Moth (Speiredonia spectans).

Paddocks & Dams:

Golden-headed Cisticola

Birds: Black Swan, Australian Wood Duck, Pink eared Duck, Grey Teal, Pacific Black Duck, Hardhead, Australasian Grebe, Crested Pigeon, Peaceful Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Australian Darter, Little Pied Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Australian Pelican, Great Egret, White-faced Heron, Australian White Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Whistling Kite, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Nankeen Kestrel, Dusky Moorhen, Eurasian Coot, Black-winged Stilt, Black-fronted Dotterel, Masked Lapwing, Australian King-Parrot, Pale-headed Rosella, Azure Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra, Rainbow Bee-eater, Superb Fairy-wren, Red-backed Fairy-wren, White-throated Gerygone, Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Weebill, Striated Pardalote, Eastern Spinebill, Lewin's Honeyeater, Yellow-faced Honeyeater, Brown Honeyeater, White-naped Honeyeater, Striped Honeyeater, Rufous Whistler, Grey Shrike-thrush, Australasian Figbird, Pied Butcherbird, Australian Magpie, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Torresian Crow, Restless Flycatcher, Magpie-lark, Golden-headed Cisticola, Silvereye, Welcome Swallow, Mistletoebird, Zebra Finch, Double-barred Finch, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin.

Butterflies: Lemon Migrant (Catopsilia pomona), Common Grass-yellow (Eurema hecabe), Small Grass-yellow (Eurema smilax), Black Jezebel (Delias nigrina), Common Albatross (Appias paulina), Wanderer (Danaus plexippus), Lesser Wanderer (Danaus petilia), Common Crow (Euploea core), Meadow Argus (Junonia villida), Plumbago Blue (Leptotes plinius).

Spiders: Daddy Longlegs Spiders       (Pholcus phalangioides)

Amphibians: Green Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea).

Other Invertebrates: European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Reptiles: Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii), Elegant Snake-eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher).