Mt Taylor NR
Meet at 9am at the Mt Taylor Reserve bitumen carpark near traffic lights and roughly opposite Mannheim Street on Sulwood Drive, Kambah. This is a one-way carpark – if coming from the south you’ll need to drive up the northern end of the carpark to enter it (where the traffic signs say 20 km/hr). It is also possible to park in Gouger St, Torrens and walk for 10 minutes directly west to meet us on Sulwood Drive.
We will walk all the way around the Mt Taylor Base Loop starting on the Sulwood Fire Trail. There is no need to climb to the summit. Our loop mostly follows fire trails with quite a few ups and downs and some narrower tracks on rockier ground, over a distance of about 5.5km. We aim to finish before 12 noon.
Recent e-bird listings show thornbills, whistlers and honeyeaters flying over.
Please register with Judi on JudithPaulM@gmail.com and include your name, phone number, and name and number of an emergency contact.
Post event report
Shortly before 9am, a group of 17 members walked in light fog from the Sulwood Drive car park in a clockwise direction around Mount Taylor Nature Reserve. As we headed west, there were several groupings of smaller birds, including Yellow-rumped, Brown, Buff-Rumped and Striated Thornbills. Additional sightings included Weebills, Spotted Pardalotes and Scarlet Robins in two locations by the time we traversed north along the steep fire trail. The sun pierced through the mist by 10:30am, seemingly to the delight of many Crimson Rosellas that were seen frollicking in the sunshine along our circuitous route. We had low counts of 4 White-eared Honeyeaters, 2 White-naped Honeyeaters, 2 Golden Whistlers, a Grey Strike-thrush and an Australian King Parrot. A grouping of 8 White-winged Choughs was industriously working through the undergrowth on the east side of the reserve, before we returned to the car park by about 11:40am, with a tally of 27 species.
Mark Tindale
