• Australian Wood-duck - Common
• Australian White Ibis - Seen overhead
• Yellow-billed Spoonbill - Seen overhead
• Straw-necked Ibis - Common on the lawn!
• Spotted Turtle Dove - Common
• Bar-shouldered Dove - Common on the lawn
• Crested Pigeon - Seen on the TV aerial
• Glossy Black Cockatoo - A local specialty, a pair flew right over the house early one morning and were the only ones of the trip!
• Masked Lapwing - Common around about
• Long billed Corella - THE bird table birds!
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo - Seen flying over and on nearby fields
• Galah - Grey and pink parrots seen regularly
• Rainbow Lorikeet - Seen in shrubs around the garden
• Laughing Kookaburra - Classic antipodean birds, here in then garden!
• Rainbow Bee-eater - Seen in surrounding trees
• Noisy Minor - Several seen around gardens
• Lewin’s Honey-eater - Liked to feed around the pool shrubs in the morning
• Willie Wagtail - Occasionally noted on lawns
• Magpie Lark- Raucous and common!
• Grey Butcherbird- Seen in fields in front of The Valley House
• Pied Butcherbird - Seen around trees in area
• Australian Magpie - Another noisy resident!
• Torresion Crow - Seen daily
• Welcome Swallow- Seen overhead
• Common Mynah - As it says!
• Cattle Egret - Seen overhead

Additionally a pair of Bush Thick-knees appeared to be resident a couple of blocks up the road.

Very close to The Valley House the local golf course was just a short walk away and as well as many of the above, also held:

• Little Pied Cormorant
• Little Black Cormorant
• Australasian Grebe
• Hardhead (duck)
• Pacific Black Duck
• Dusky Moorhen
• Purple Swamphen
• Eastern Rosella
• Striated Pardalote

Opposite The Valley House is Mt O’Reilly Road (not to be confused with O’Reilly’s!), this road has a dead end but leads up into the hills of House Mountain to overlook the next valley (Cedar Creek) along with some great views. The habitat here is wooded with tangled underbrush. Additional species here included:

• Spotted Pardalote
• Yellow-faced Honey-eater
• Olive-backed Oriole
• Pied Currawong (Crow-like)
• Silvereye

Driving around the Samford Valley area we also managed to see:

• Wedge-tailed Eagle
• Grey Goshawk
• Bell Miner
• Wonga Pigeon (Maiala Tea Rooms, Mt Glorious)

On top of these areas, which are all relatively close to The Valley House, an excellent area to visit for birding is Lake Samsonvale which is about a half hour drive. Accessed from the cemetery, depending on the season and amount of rainfall, there will either be a large lake in front of the visitor or a sprawling grassland with a distant smaller lake as it was on our visit.

On top of many of the birds already mentioned, there were several more birds of prey and water birds at Lake Samsonvale: