O Reilly's..say no more! AUSTRALIA (Oct)

After a late flurry of new birds at the end of our New South Wales leg in the Capertee Valley (Crested Shrike-Tit, Little Lorikeet and more), and Royal National Park (male of the master-mimic, Superb Lyrebird), we returned to Queensland for another spell. This time though not to the Wet Tropics of the north that we had visited earlier out of Cairns, but this time to southern Queensland, and the legendary O Reilly's Rainforest Retreat in Lamington National Park. Why legendary? Well this stunner jumped onto people's food-filled hands on arrival (Regent Bowerbird), and even climbed on to someone's back, while the usual siege of Crimson Rosellas and Australian King-Parrots also came in for the feast, while I checked us in. Now that is a true royal welcome!

More from O Reilly's to come, including one of Australia's most iconic mammals...