jadonald's Identifications

Saw a number of bristlebirds along the edge of the road throughout the defence force's Beecroft Peninsula weapons range. It is one of the last strongholds for the species and public access is allowed friday-sunday.

Each bird was on its own and would be foraging around in the short grass by the gravel road or at the very edge of the dense coastal heath (identified as shoalhaven lowland heath on the nsw gov site geo seed). The bird would hop around far more often than it would fly. When a car approached it hopped into the dense heath and disappeared.

The sky was overcast all day with very light rain for the morning and lunch period. The temperature remained in the low-mid 20's. The vast majority of the birds we saw on the Peninsula were New Holland Honeyeaters and Superb Fairywrens.

A group of three quails were foraging together in the grass by the gravel road. They were at the edge of the dense coastal heath of the defence force's Beecroft Peninsula weapons range. The three were not particularly scared by the car driving by and allowed us to slowly reverse back a few metres to see them. After a minute they flew into the heath and disappeared.They seemed like strong fliers for how short their wings are. We saw another group of three a few km up the road at the lighthouse.