Day Two: Waking in Hobart and taking a drive to the town of Kettering where we took a ferry to Bruny Island for some intense birding.
I took a post-breakfast stroll on the docks across the street from our Hobart hotel.
View of Mount Wellington from the dock:
Old Henry Jones & Co. Jam buildings, now renovated into a hotel and gallery complex:
Birds seen while in Kettering below.
Pied Oystercatcher on a lawn (an unusual sight to see one on grass):
New Holland Honeyeater:
Blackbird:
European Goldfinch:
Views from the Bruny Island Ferry:
Black-faced Cormorants:
What I believe were Silver Gulls:
Our landing at Bruny Island:
Forty Spotted Pardalote seen by Dennes Point:
Echidna on a field in the distance:
Brown Falcon:
Brown Falcon:
New Holland Honeyeater:
Spotted Pardalote singing away:
A much closer look at another Echidna:
Flame Robin:
New Holland Honeyeater in flight (not a great shot but it’s nice to see its wings):
We had lunch at the delightful Hothouse Cafe.View of the Tasman Peninsula from the cafe’s lawn:
View of Mount Wellington:
Green Rosella enjoying milkweed on the lawn by the car park:
We traveled to Adventure Bay to search for the Hooded Plover (classified as a vulnerable species):
Pacific Gulls:
A few Hooded Plovers were in sight:
New Holland Honeyeater:
We did not stay on the beach long before getting back on the road.
Tasmanian Thornbill:
Gray Fantail:
Fiddlehead:
Golden Whistler:
Pink Robin (one of my favorite birds on the tour):
Lighting was not my friend so unfortunately, the bird’s vibrant coloring is not so visible in these shots.
Eastern Spinebill:
Crescent Honeyeater, a difficult bird to photograph since it wouldn’t sit still:
Silver-Eye:
Purple Swamphen:
Our day on Bruny Island was over so we went back to the ferry landing to return to Kettering.
White-bellied Sea-Eagle:
Just before our ferry returned to Kettering, we saw a White-faced Cormorant:
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