While I am feeling better, I am still a bit low on energy so I thinkI am going to take it easy most of the weekend. I did manage to get out with the camera a bit today and got some new photos so I was quite pleased with that. One of the great things about birding in Darwin is the huge amount of fairly easily accessible mangroves and the suite of birds that call these areas home. Birds like the Mangrove Golden and White-breasted Whisters, several gerygones, Red-headed Honeyeaters, Mangrove Robins, Yello White-eyes and others live pretty much exclusively in this habitat and can often be hard to access. Fortunately, while not all these birds are easy to find even around Darwin, mangroves can be accessed at several sites around the area. One of those sites is only a few kilometers outside of the CBD (Central Business District) and I spent some time there this morning and evening.
Photographically, the morning proved more productive, but I saw the same birds on both trips. Red-headed Honeyeaters were fairly common along with a Varied Triller that seemed to live in a clump of a few trees. I also was quite pleased to find a Mangrove Robin that proved to be cooperative, at least briefly, and I was able to get some photos of this rather elusive bird. Other than that, Idid hear a Chestnut Rail but so far haven't been able to lay eyes on one. Hopefully I will find one in the next couple days.
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