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of reptiles this area is also particularly good for mallee dragon ctenophorus fordi sand monitor varanus gouldii western blue tongued lizard tiliqua occipitalis shingleback tiliqua rugosa desert skink liopholis inornata variable eastern tree dtella gehyra variegata and on several occasions burton s snake lizard lialis burtonis the colours of the chestnut quail thrush blend it perfectly in with the colours of the mallee konardin track another spot to look for mallee emu wren is on the konardin track with the main access via the mournpall track i ve found the best spot to be around 500 m after you pass through the kangaroo fence 34 690833 142 329767 look also for splendid fairy wren which occur in the open sandy scrub directly adjacent to the fence line always a personal favourite purple backed fairy wren warepil lookout walk if you don t find mallee emu wren along the nowingi track or the konardin track they also occur along the warepil lookout walk enter just north of the lake mournpall campground in most cases when i ve seen mallee emu wren they ve been in association with the larger tussocks of spinifex fire trail parallel to hattah robinvale rd another site for striated grasswren is the mallee woodlands along a fire trail that runs parallel to hattah robinvale rd 34 761715 142 320735 i usually park my car at the entrance to the national park and then walk across to the fire trial at this site i ve also seen chestnut quail thrush shy heathwren and crested bellbird one of the things i most enjoy about the mallee is the colours of its woodlands simply gorgeous the hattah and mournpall campgrounds hattah is also great for mallee parrots such as regent mulga blue winged and red rumped parrot australian mallee ssp barnardi ringneck blue bonnet cockatoo little corella cockatiel major mitchell and sulphur crested cockatoo galah and crimson yellow ssp flaveolus rosella perhaps the best places for regent parrot yellow rosella and major mitchell cockatoo are around lake hattah itself i e look for regent parrot and yellow rosella near the day picnic area and toilet block just before you enter hattah lakes campground in spring listen to the high pitched call of blue winged parrot as they fly high in the sky over the campground usually in the morning in 2012 there was a possible sighting of a night parrot one of the world s rarest species flying through the lake mournpall campground buloke grassy woodlands along the mournpall track perfect habitat for chestnut crowned babbler the hattah and lake mournpall campgrounds are both great for seeing apostlebird they muscle their way around the campsites each morning and evening i have even had one enter my 2 man tent while i was in it other birds around the campgrounds include the noisy miner grey butcherbird white winged chough blue faced honeyeater and at night southern boobook australian owlet nightjar and occasionally spotted nightjar in general the lakes and ephemeral wetlands around hattah when they contain water provide habitat for a wide range of waterbirds such as australasian darter black swan australian pelican great egret grebes such as australasian hoary headed and great crested pink eared musk and blue billed duck grey and chestnut teal eurasian coot black tailed native hen and rarer species such as freckled duck australian painted snipe and australasian bittern importantly look around the lakes for birds of prey i ve recorded species such as black peregrine and brown falcon australian hobby nankeen kestrel brown goshawk collared sparrowhawk black shouldered black and whistling kite and wedge tailed and white bellied sea eagle a drive along the self guided hattah lakes nature discovery trail is also worthwhile particularly for open woodland species despite their size malleefowl are elusive and extremely difficult to find mournpall track during the day in the areas of semi arid woodland along the mournpall track between lake mournpall and the raak track particularly where there are slender cypress pine and buloke you can usually find families of chestnut crowned babbler i generally look for them in the larger sections of slender cypress pine while the vegetated sand dunes along here hold both splendid and variegated fairy wren in the grassland along the mournpall track there are usually grazing emu and both red and western grey kangaroo the mournpall track is a good place to spotlight for spotted nightjar which have a tendency to roost along the rocky surface of the road look out for them in your car s headlights on one particular night we spotlighted along the mournpall track between the lake mournpall campground and the bitterrang track turn off and we got onto a total of seven spotted nightjar as well as tawny frogmouth and eastern barn owl a regent parrot feeding in a river red gum lake kramen lake kramen is a bit of an unknown gem at hattah kulkyne national park located on the hattah robinvale road it is around 17 km from the township of hattah the main hattah lakes system is managed in such a way that the lakes undergo a drawdown and drying event drying of the main lakes such as hattah and mournpall is important as it provides the opportunity for the herb gardens in the lake beds to develop providing an opportunity for seed events for these plants during these dry years lake kramen is filled with water to provide refuge for the park s waterbirds and other wildlife it can receive around 145 megalitres per day from the hattah lakes pump station so when lake kramen does have water the lake can be a haven for waterbirds the surrounding woodlands can be full of regent parrots and it is also a good place to see emu once i was there there were an estimated 300 regent parrots and that s probably an underestimate i have found the best spot to see the regents and access the lake generally is along the shorts pipeline track at the east end of the wetland there was also an abundance of waterbirds there was large numbers of australian pelican and black swan great egret white necked heron great crested hoary headed and australalsian grebe australasian darter a large raft around a thousand of great cormorant black fronted dotterel a small flock of glossy ibis and scattered large groups of black tailed native hen colloquially as turbo chooks or as i call them super chooks because of the way they run around crazily and scatter ducks included pacific black australian wood blue billed musk and pink eared duck australasian shoveler australian shelduck and grey and chestnut teal that s nine species of duck on one lake all that was missing was a freckled duck and a few plumed whistling duck at one point a nice white bellied sea eagle appeared circled the lake flushing most of the water birds and then roosted in a large river red gum at the far end of the lake looking very much like a wetland in kakadu an abundance of waterbirds at lake kramen nowingi state forest this is a relatively new site for me and a good place to see mallee emu wren leading west from the calder highway the entrance track to nowingi state forest is several hundred metres north of where the nowingi track meets the calder highway drive west along this crossing the railway line after about 200 metres stay on the northmost track drive another 100 metres and park here 34 6761529419884 142 24678651394348 the mallee woodland here is excellent with some areas of large spinifex triodia the first time i visited here i got out of the car looked at the largest clumps of grass i could see and then immediately found mallee emu wren there were some other nice birds here including mulga parrot splendid fairy wren crested bellbird spotted pardalote yellow rumped mallee ssp varied sitella pied butcherbird and striped honeyeater spinifex triodia woodlands the habitat for malleefowl mallee emu wren and striated grasswren some notes on safety in the mallee as with all of the mallee areas i strongly recommend you be careful when wondering around the bush due to the structural nature of mallee it s very easy to lose your sense of direction so a compass or gps can be a very handy tool to maintain your location and the use of google maps can be very useful however note that in some places you will have no reception on your phone although i think i have a good sense of direction on one particular occasion i remember becoming completely disoriented in an area i had not previously visited my reaction was to immediately stop walking wait and listen i reasoned that i was close enough to the calder highway and as long as i stayed exactly where i was i could hear any passing trucks after 5 minutes i heard a truck in the distance to my west so i knew that i needed to travel north to get back to my car another technique i use to maintain direction in the mallee and any outback bush setting generally is to look at the direction of my shadow using your shadow you can determine the direction in which you are walking for instance you might walk with your shadow falling to your right after several hundred metres turn around 180 so it falls on your left and walk back the way you ve come you can also turn 90 so it falls in the direction behind you continue for several hundred meters and then turn 90 again and return to the track that you have come from thus effectively walking a quadrant note that the direction of your shadow will change over time as the sun rises and falls so you may need to make adjustments as you go as a rule when using this technique i tend to do it reasonably quickly pink cockatoo hattah lakes lake tyrrell on your way up to hattah kulkyne national park i e if traveling from melbourne stop and visit lake tyrrell it is victoria s largest salt lake at 20 860 ha very shallow lake tyrrell is a salt crusted lake fortunately three quarters of the lake is protected as a wildlife reserve the habitat around the lake is chenopod shrublands and plain grassland these are vegetation communities that are mostly devoid of trees instead the environment is dominated by shrubs such as bladder saltbush atriplex vesicaria grey bluebush maireana appressa blackseed glasswort halosarcia pergranulata slender glasswort sclerostegia tenui s babbagia osteocarpum acropterum and leafy sea heath frankenia foliosa one of the dominant ground covers is the rounded noonflower disphyma crassifolium also known as pigface the habitat of the lake and the habitat along tyrrell creek both act as an important wildlife corridor for many species of birds and animals there are a number of rare floral species at lake tyrrell these include lobed blue bush maireana lobiflora wiry glasswort halosarcia lylei and the wonderfully named yakka grass sporobolus caroli fortunately some of the copi islands in the lake are inaccessible to stock and therefore retain vegetation with high natural habitat values the small islands are also used as breeding grounds for species such as silver gull and banded lapwing the footprint of an emu during wet and warm periods in victoria lake tyrrell turns pink from the red pigment secreted by the pink mirco algae called dunaliella salina now extinct two species of flamingos phoeniconotius eyrensis and phoenicopterus novaehollandiae once occurred in australia during the miocene you can imagine in times past these two majestic birds feeding on the pink mirco algae at lake tyrrell it would have made a stunning sight lake tyrrell is the terminal lake of tyrrell creek flowing every 5 years or so after heavy rains lake tyrrell is also a discharge area for groundwater these are referred to as boinka a local first nations word along the eastern edge of lake tyrrell runs a large crescent shaped dune known as a lunette surveys along the lunette have revealed evidence of first nation occupation recording over 130 cultural sites including hearths stone scatters and burial sites one such archaeological site is box gully consisting of the remains of a small hunting camp it has been radiocarbon dated to around 32 000 years bp the sunrises in the mallee are magical interestingly the name tyrrell is derived from the local wergaia people s word for sky various clan groups of the wergaia such as the boorong people have a strong interest in starlore connecting the constellations of the night sky with astronomical stories anyone who has visited lake tyrrell at night will appreciate why due to a complete lake of light pollution and the completely flat horizon line due to the salt lake the night stars can be absolutely amazing as a result in recent times the lake has become a popular tourist destination providing an excellent location for photographers to take snaps of the lake s mirror like surface recently excellent viewing plantforms were built at the end of bailey s road mentioned below the mallee region has an abundance of parrots including eastern blue bonnet where to see the birds at lake tyrrell baileys road access so where are the good spots to see the birds at lake tyrrell in my opinion there are two good spots for birding the first is at the end of baileys road accessed from the township of sea lake drive north up the calder highway until you reach baileys road 6 5 km then drive down baileys road past the lookout until you reach lake tyrrell road about 1 5 km where there are a series of platforms from there you can also drive further out to another viewing platform located within the salt lake the habitat at the end of baileys road provides access to some of the more interesting species of birds found at lake tyrrell in the warmer months between september to march orange chat occurs in the shrublands beside the lake or right along lake tyrrell road as it leads east from the lookout white winged fairy wren occur in the vegetation nearer the lake edge but anywhere you might see orange chat while rufous fieldwren occur in areas of planted bluebush with a good area to look 100 meters base of the first lookout around the lake you can also see black faced woodswallow white backed swallow brown songlark scan in the bordering paddocks particularly on fence posts eastern bluebonnet with lake tyrrell being a particularly good place to see them such along baileys road the common honeyeater is singing honeyeater but you might also see white plumed honeyeater yellow throated miner and white fronted chat in spring blue winged parrot can be see at lake tyrrell for example i have seen a flock of around 50 blue winged parrots feeding on the ground in the blue bush plantation where the rufous fieldwren occur the warmer month is also a good time to see horsfield s bronze cuckoo a splendid fairy wren looking splendid lake tyrrell road access from robinvale sea lake road the second access point to lake tyrrell is from the robinvale sea lake road from sea lake drive north along calder highway and then after 3 km turn left onto robinvale sea lake road after another 3 7 km you come to the entrance point on lake tyrrell rd turn left and after 100 meters stop and bird in the shrublands ...