Little Desert

After leaving mid-afternoon from my home town of Geelong, my first stop was at the Kiata Picnic Ground in the Little Desert National Park. This is a good area to camp, being near Salt Lake Track, up which you can occassionally find Purple-Gaped Honeyeater and Slender-billed Thornbill. Unfortunately I missed both these species this time, but instead got good looks at a Gilberts Whistler and saw some Tawny-Crowned Honeyeaters and Brush Bronzewings as they came into drink at a small dam along the track. Around the campground, a family of Varied Sitella's kept close to each other, as well as a family of Dusky Woodswallows and a couple of Peaceful Doves. After leaving the Kiata campgrounds, (and having a brief encounter with a King Brown Snake), I went via Whimpey's lodge, where at the entrance, were plenty of birds, including a juvenile Jacky Winter and plenty of Common Bronzewings. The time came to cross the border and make my way through South Australia.