Burrum Heads, where our rather splendid holiday house is located, sits at the mouth of the Burrum river with it’s shoreline edged with mangrove. This unique environment has it’s own particular bird life and over the past week we’ve managed to find most of it.

The Burrum estuary, with watchful Brahminy Kite

The mangrove

First of the mangrove specialities – Mangrove Gerygone

Mangrove Honeyeater

Fairy Gerygone – not exclusively a mangrove dweller

Shining Flycatcher on the other hand certainly is. This elusive female was no compensation for the ‘eye-balling’ views we had of a male on the very day I forgot to put a card in my camera!

Little Shrike-thrush – another elusive species

Not a mangrove dweller particularly but Red-backed Fairy-Wren is always nice to see

Finally, Dollar Bird, a summer migrant which is well distributed – we just happened to see this one near the mangrove!

Three ‘life’ ticks in the mangrove – rather more mosquito bites!