Marrawal Plateau Revisted

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Evidently, White-winged Trillers breed in colonies. Up until my last walk on the Marrawal Plateau in south-western Arhnmland, I had only seen them in pairs. I counted a flock of approximately 200, actively hunting grasshoppers on the ground. While they hunted on the ground in a "scare and snatch" manner, several members maintained a lookout for the Goshawks who patrol these areas. On their signal the entire attack squad moved back into the trees. It sort of remined me of the way a lawn mower scares insects in its path only this time they were devoured "in flight". The main highlight was a 11 km walk in to get pics of a skink with a red tail, someone should have told the skink I was coming.
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White-winged Triller Lelage tricolour
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Brown Goshawk Acipiter Fasciatus
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Acacia mimula
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Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis
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Alysicarpus schomburgkii
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Oedaleus austalis
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Bee Fly Balaana bicuspis
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Calytrix achaeta
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Canis lupus dingo

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Chequred Swallowtail Papilio demoleus
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Crotalaria goreensis fields
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Ctenotus coggeri
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Gomphrena sp
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Ipomoea diversifolia
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Merremia sp
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Northern Pencilled-blue Candalides gilberti
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Orange Migrant Catopsilia scylla
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Polygala longiflora
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Robber Fly Asilidae Laphria sp.
eating an
unidentified wasp
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Rough-leafed Bloodwood Eucalyptus setosa
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Sida cordifolia
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Spinifex Matchstick Grasshopper Warramunga sp. Female
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St Andrews Cross Argiope sp
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Turkey Bush Calytrix exstipulate
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Two-spined Rainbow Skink Carlia amax
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Waltheria indica
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Wandering Percher Diplacodes bipunctata
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Zebra Grasshopper Zebratula flavonigra
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