What can I say besides, another productive day in paradise. I started off the day at Hamelin Pool looking for the Chiming Wedgebill that I had seen yesterday evening without much success. I did see one and heard another couple but never got very close to them. Eventually, clouds rolled in and Iwalked back down to the stramatolites and spent a little while taking some photos of them.
After that I got on the road and headed up to the Monkey Mia area, arriving midmorning. Monkey Mia is wolrld famous for their dolphins that come in to the beach to be hand fed by employees of the reserve. I have always found it a bit strange when animals are fed in one spot by park service employees and then there are signs everywhere else saying don't feed the animals. Sure, I know the feed is extremely regulated and only specific dolphins are fed, but still, just seems a bit odd. Anyway, the dolphins weren't in but I did see the Thick-billed Grasswrens that frequent the car park.
Since the light was quite harsh at this point, I headed out into Francois Peron National Park to find a place to camp and do some planning for the upcoming weeks and months. As the afternoon progressed, I ended up back at the Homestead with the hopes of photographing some birds. I had a several targets, namely the Chiming Wedgebills and Thick-billed Grasswrens I had seen in the area on my way into the park. Ihad also heard that Southern Scrub-Robins were seen around the area so that would be nice too. I ended up finding and photographing all three which really made my evening. I still hope to get better grasswren shots tomorrow morning at Monkey Mia but I was very pleased with the others.
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