Rainbow Bee-eaters! – so lucky to capture with our 10 x zoom lens (digital camera)
They live on flying insects with their favourite being bees, eating up to several hundred bees a day. They can sight insects up to 150 feet away. They will fly down and catch it with their bill and then knock it against their perch to quieten it down. They are immune to the sting of a bee however they still rub the bee’s stinger against the perch which removes it and while doing this they close their eyes to protect them from the squirt of poison.
Goanna (Lace Monitor) off the dirt road – one of a pair feeding on some small animal.
Coopernook National Park campsite
Epiphytes – Stag horn fern
Epiphytes – Birds nest fern
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