Royal National Park

With continuing high winds that were going to plague our time in Australia, our pelagic out of Sydney was cancelled yesterday. So we headed into Royal National Park for the day instead. This turned out to be quite a good day as we spent our time in excellent habitat notching up plenty of lifers along the way. We began around a lake with Australian White Ibis, Australasian Darter, Rainbow Lorikeet, Little Wattlebird, Azure Kingfisher and a cracking group of Variegated Fairywrens, before heading along Lady Carrington Drive seeing Lewin's Honeyeater, Topknot Pigeon, Brown Gerygone and, best of all, Superb Lyrebird. 

Rainbow Lorikeet

Topknot Pigeon

Variegated Fairywren

Lewin's Honeyeater

Superb Lyrebird

Another location across the park proved interesting as our walk across the heathland gave us excellent looks at numerous New Holland Honeyeaters and the striking Southern Emu-Wren. And we ended the day trying in vain for Green Catbird, but did get Red-browed Treecreeper and Eastern Whipbird. 

Red-browed Treecreeper

We returned to Sydney for the night and made our preparations for tomorrow's flight to Cairns in tropical Queensland.