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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Whitehouse" data-source="post: 1686084" data-attributes="member: 3550">Day 21: July 9th, Lamington NPI began the day by joining the morning feeding outside O'Reilly's.  This brought in some rather easy lifers.  Regent Bowerbirds were numerous.  First I saw the rather cute females with their spangled plumage.  Then some males turned up, looking generally ridiculous.  A smaller number of Satin Bowerbirds appeared soon after.  These are bigger birds than the Regents; the females were greenish and the males a deep velvety blue.  You don't need binoculars to see any of these features, incidentally.  Other birds in the vicinity included some of the other approachable residents of O'Reilly's: Eastern Yellow Robin, Eastern Whipbird, Yellow-throated and White-browed Scrubwrens and Wonga Pigeons.I went for a stroll along the Border Trail and had good views of a splendid Bassian Thrush, which is very much like a White's Thrush.  That makes them very good birds indeed.  I also had some much better views of Southern Logrunners.  I like the way these birds almost prop themselves up on their tails when they dig down into the leaf litter.  Great little things.After breakfast I returned to the trail I'd walked the previous afternoon.  I had some reasonable views of a Green Catbird high up in the trees - a species I saw a few more times over the next couple of days, although they always seemed quite wary in comparison to the Spotted Catbirds I'd seen further north.  Heading further along the track I came across two birders looking intently into the forest.  They were watching a displaying Albert's Lyrebird.  Unfortunately my arrival (which was pretty quiet!) still disturbed it and it walked off through the forest and across the track behind us.  I got some pretty good views of this remarkable bird, but would love to have been able to watch it as it sang.  Later I had a quick glimpse of another moving through thick cover.  Also along the trail were a couple of Bassian Thrushes, Logrunner, Lewin's Honeyeater and Pied Currawong.The trail continued on into some drier forest, which held slightly different species.  A male Eastern Spinebill soon appeared and I had a couple of views of one of the local Peregrines crusing along the edge of the mountain.  A busy flock of birds contained several very active Striated Thornbills, which are yellower in colour than the commoner Brown Thornbills.  Brown Gerygone was in the same flock.  Further along I found a pair of Noisy Miners, which are a little bit scarce at Lamington but I was to see a lot more of them later in the trip.In the afternoon I took a walk down to the waterfall.  The views were impressive but at first the birding was quiet.  I found a Pale Yellow Robin and a White-naped Honeyeater in the eucalyptus forest.  A small patch of scrub produced a nice view of a Shining Bronze Cuckoo.  Better still were a splendid pair of Crested Shrike-tits - a species I'd missed in the southwest, so I was pleased to catch up with them here.  As its name suggest, it's sort of like a Great Tit crossed with a shrike.  Further along, I encountered quite a large flock in the tree tops, including more Striated Thornbills and White-throated Treecreepers.Here's a recording of Albert's Lyrebird.  No chainsaws but still quite impressive.</blockquote>

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