We went out this morning on our final birding session of our current Australia tour to see if we could mop up a few more trip ticks. First stop was a return to the coastal heath of Minimbah, looking for quail. Plenty of Brown along the sides of the approach track but then, through the thermal imager, I picked up a small heat source some 50m in front of us. Approaching with caution we eventually got good views of King Quail (body size of a tennis ball) on the deck. Our only previous sighting was of a bird flushed and then in flight for just a couple of seconds. A quick pit-stop coffee near Coolongolook yielded up a Comb-crested Jacana before heading inland to O’Sullivans Gap – a now neglected rainforest walk and picnic ground. It was very quiet but somehow Dan managed to magic up a Pale-Yellow Robin – his first at the site and a Hunter tick for me! Our final stop, with too little time to do it justice, was Mungo Brush, where we failed to see the Rose-crowned Fruit Dove (again!) but did added Black-faced Monarch to our trip list – which closes on 244 after our three week family holiday, split between Victoria and New South Wales. Tomorrow we head to Sydney airport for our flight to Thailand to meet up with Neil and Nicola and ten days leisurely birding in the south of the country.