Ben Boyd NP & Greencape
A day trip photo essay
Saturday 9th October, 2021
We searched for orchids but with little success. It seems their flowering time has passed, but there were plenty of other highlights: unfamiliar heath flowers, like the smokebush (Proteacea, Conospermum) and a near-leafless pea (Sphaerolobium). Breaching whales, lazy whales, and leaping lizards. And some rather uncommon birds!
A pair of White-bellied Cuckoo-shrikes feeding in low trees … a species we see only rarely.
And Striated Fieldwrens … our first mainland sighting! We’ve only seen them in Tasmania before now, and it took some time to work out what they were. The male was singing beautifully from his distant perch. We couldn’t get close, and my glimpse was rather fleeting, but an exciting find for us nonetheless.
Ben Boyd NP & Greencape trips
Paul & Kerri-Lee