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Anakie Gorge - reopen after bushfire

Brisbane Ranges National Park is rich in native flora with some 619 native plant species (about one fifth of Victoria’s total) found in the ranges. Many are either rare or remote from their normal localities. It is also a good place for bird watching. For more details regarding Anakie Gorge and its location, please go to the Victoria Parks website: http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/explore/parks/brisbane-ranges-national-park
The photo on the right was taken on 3rd March 2013 when we paid our second visit to the area.

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Blue-winged Parrots have been at Anakie Gorge and caught by my camera for the second year. After long absence from the place, we decided to pay another visit to the area on the 20th Dec 2013, a day after 40 degrees hot wheather . Delightfully at least four Blue-winged Parrots were feeding on the ground at the same area around noon. This one was on the footpath in front of us on the way back to the car park. We spotted it on the way up but it decided flying away. It was alert but decided to stay. As I lowed myself to the ground, it seemed ease a little. Here are photos of this beautiful Blue-winged Parrot.


Last year at the same place I saw at least three Blue-winged Parrots high up on the tree. No good photos worth showing except a blur one.




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Anakie Gorge Revisit

After a couple of years closure for repair and maintenance after bushfire in 2011, which destroyed most of bridges and plantation, Anakie Gorge track finally reopened to the public. We were regular visitors before the closure and had enjoyed bush walking and bird watching at Anakie Gorge. To our delight, this revisit brought us a lot of surprises with new birds we saw this time but not previously. New plantation grows more densely than before. It makes bird watching a bit difficult. We are glad that Echidna and Wallaby are still in the area. Jim spotted a big Goanna.  I also heard its noise in the bush while I took photos of 4 Blue-winged parrots feeding the young.  Unfortunately we saw a fox on the hill across the creek. Koala has no where to be seen this time. Just passing the picnic area and toilet block, we spotted 3 Grey Currawong and a Common Bronzewing. Rufous Fantail is always one of my favourite birds. Here it was at Anakie Gorge waggling its tail to us. We have seen them more often now at the south western region of Melbourne. Photos below show birds we saw today except Striated Pardalote, New Holland Honeyeater, Grey Shrike-thrush, Common Blackbird and Red-browed Finch.

We paid our second visit on Sunday 3rd March 2013. To our delight we saw not only one but two Koalas at Anakie Gorge. One was at the Picnic Area from Stony Creek. The other one was spotted on the way into the Anakie Gorge. They were both active at time. One was a metre from the ground on the road side tree. We can almost touch it. The other one was coming down from a tree and jumped off tree and disappeared into the bush.
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