We had a couple of hours to kill after arriving while we were waiting to check in at the hotel, so we walked across the street to the Brisbane Botanic Garden (essentially a big public park with a lot of grass, patches of tropical plants and paved walkways). It’s very pleasant and just birdy enough for a severely jet-lagged brain. We found 14 species of birds (all of them are lifers), a lizard (Eastern Water Dragon), a mammal (Brush-tailed Possum) and many bats (Black Flying Foxes).
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| Blue-faced Honeyeater |
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| Australian Brushturkey |
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| Australian Ibis |
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| Masked Lapwing |
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| Laughing Kookaburra |
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| Gray headed Butcherbird (adult and juvenile) |
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| Brush Thick-knees (adult and 2 juveniles) |
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| Brush-tailed Possum |
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| Eastern Water Dragon |
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| Black Flying Fox a couple of interesting facts: - they don’t use echolocation at night, they use their eyes and other senses - they are very big with a wingspan close to 3 ft. |
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| There are staghorn ferns all over the park which is interesting because… |
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| I just turned in my drawing of a staghorn fern the day before we left Seattle. |
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