Retard Basins Sawyers Valley WA

Survey Point Retard basins Sawyers Valley WA
Latitude -31.8969400 (31° 53′ 49″ S)
Longitude 116.2227800 (116° 13′ 22″ E)

About 2km east of the settlement of Sawyers Valley on the busy Great Eastern Hwy, the basins are on the north side of the road and are usually dry, there is good forest on the south side with a few houses on the north side too that have retained some big trees.

No camping advised

Surveys done 6

Blogs see main page archives:

SW WA and Great Northern Hwy to Broome 2019

Broome to Melbourne via Port Hedland Karijini NP Mt Augustus NP Kennedy Ranges NP Nullarbor Menindee Lakes 2019

Western Australia 2021-22

Shark Bay, Mt Augustus, Gibb River Rd, Purnululu(Bungles),Stuart Hwy, Eyre Hwy 2023

  • Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera 1 (16.67%)
  • Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae 2 (33.33%)
  • Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii 1 (16.67%)
  • Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo Zanda baudinii 1 (16.67%)
  • Galah Eolophus roseicapilla 4 (66.67%)
  • Red-capped Parrot Purpureicephalus spurius 2 (33.33%)
  • Australian Ringneck Barnardius zonarius 2 (33.33%)
  • Brown Honeyeater Lichmera indistincta 2 (33.33%)
  • Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata 4 (66.67%)
  • Singing Honeyeater Gavicalis virescens 1 (16.67%)
  • Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris 1 (16.67%)
  • Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis 1 (16.67%)
  • Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor 3 (50.00%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 2 (33.33%)
  • Australian Raven Corvus coronoides 2 (33.33%)
  • Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor 1 (16.67%)
  • Silvereye Zosterops lateralis 2 (33.33%)
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2023 where’s Ollie?