Fernshaw picnic Black Spur Vic

Survey Point Fernshaw picnic Black Spur Vic
Latitude -37.6144400 (37° 36′ 52″ S)
Longitude 145.6044400 (145° 36′ 16″ E)

About 15km NE of Healesville on the Maroondah Hwy the picnic ground is at the base of the long uphill drive to the Black Spur saddle. The floor of the picnic ground is mowed grass with a stand of giant non native trees surrounded by native forest with the Watts River running by, there are facilities here.

No camping is allowed here

Surveys done 5

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NE and East Victoria 2017

Perth to Melbourne 2023

  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita 1 (20.00%)
  • Australian King-Parrot Alisterus scapularis 2 (40.00%)
  • Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans 2 (40.00%)
  • White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea 5 (100.00%)
  • Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus 2 (40.00%)
  • Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris 1 (20.00%)
  • Lewin’s Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii 1 (20.00%)
  • Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata 2 (40.00%)
  • Yellow-faced Honeyeater Caligavis chrysops 3 (60.00%)
  • Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus 2 (40.00%)
  • White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis 3 (60.00%)
  • Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 5 (100.00%)
  • Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis 2 (40.00%)
  • Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica 2 (40.00%)
  • Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatus 1 (20.00%)
  • Pied Currawong Strepera graculina 1 (20.00%)
  • Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor 1 (20.00%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 1 (20.00%)
  • Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa 3 (60.00%)
  • Australian Raven Corvus coronoides 1 (20.00%)
  • Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis 2 (40.00%)
  • Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 1 (20.00%)
2017
2023, where’s Ollie?