Last week’s post celebrated the dragonflies of Rollingstone Creek, just North of Townsville, but the birdlife deserves its share of attention, too. I saw most of the same species as on my first visit but some were more obliging this time.
Portraits …
…and a family album:
I could almost have included the Drongo with the black birds I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, but it is so much smaller (around 30 cm compared to the 45 – 50 cm of the chough, currawong and crows), and its long forked tail is so distinctive, that there is no great possibility of confusing them in real life.