Bellbird Home Buchan South, Victoria, Australia
By greynomads on 01-May-13. Waypoint GC4B1M4

Found it

On our way home from Buchan. Tftc. GC.

Lovely chorus of bell birds. Quick find on way to LE. Tftc

TFTC. Actually heard some beautiful bird sounds.

Found

TFTC! Team C's & I's

Found by the C's and I's with geogremlins in tow. Left some Disney erasers and took a few little knick knacks. Great spot, love the sound of bellbirds.

More than 10 years later and this colony is still going strong. What a delight. A FP from us.

So lovely TFTC

On a road trip to attend Capital Geobash Mega and see many different sights along the way. It was a really nice experience visiting this cache. We could hear the Bellbirds which was enjoyable. A FP added for this experience. Thanks greynomads for creating for us all to enjoy. ...................................................Are you ready to nominate in the **2023 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards**? Check out the 2023 geocaching lists [available here](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/) to get a head start and find some of the great new caches. Nominations will open early 2024.

Exploring the beautiful Gibsland area on our way back up to Moscow Ville area back over Hothom and back home to shepparton. There is an absolute beautiful country out this way beautiful history the old yards from the old Pioneer days. Thank you for bringing us to this location. Quick easy find

There were lots of bellbirds

Nice hiding spot, TFTC

What a beautiful little colony. We didnt see them but definitely heard them on our way home today. Tftc

A great location and cache !
Tftc grey nomads

Well hidden TFTC

on our way to Buchan and thought we would do this one did it with @tambodog

TFTC

Nice quick find!

A fantastic and informative description greynomads of the Bell Bird. I grew up on a farm on the Mornington Peninsula and still visit and work on the farm regularly. As long as I can remember we have had a colony of Bell Minors living down the bottom paddock surrounding the dam. Without fail pulling up at the front gate the bell birds are chiming and busy doing there thing.
Thank you so much for placing this cache amongst our beautiful flora and fauna. A favourite for us.️

Pencil was blunt but bellbirds (and frogs) were beautiful

Satisfyingly traditional cache, found with Nutwood33! Don't think we heard any Bellbirds, but maybe they just weren't at home when we dropped by? Hope all is well with the colony, and TFTC!

Nice spot for a cache. Lots of avian activity and song.

We found this cache while on a road trip to Tasmania and our route was taking in this scenic part of the country.
All good.
TFTC

I stopped here wanting to listen to the bellbirds. All the Geokiddos wanted to do was make noise.

Easy find as we headed back into NSW.

GPS was a little out, quick easy find in the obvious place

Found by The Empire + H
New Years Eve, 2021. A quick find here along the highway - such a fun drive into Buchan. Thanks for the cache greynomads.
- M

Day 3 of the Bring In The New Year (BITNY) road-trip. Today we packed up camp at Woods Point and headed back west towards Bairnsdale via Nowa Nowa and Lakes Entrance to name a few. Today I will hopefully travel through my last UBD map and tick off another LGA on my list.

GPS had us looking in a spot that could have been a needle in a haystack. Fortunately it was a few steps over in a much easier spot.

Thanks Poiter.h for placing this gamepiece in the wild for us to find.

What better to do on a sultry summer's day. Beautiful countryside, thanks so much for the cache. TNLN

Nice drive home from Buchan - no bellbirds but plenty of dusky wood swallows tftc

Thanks for the find. On our way home to Ballarat from Bairnsdale holiday

Found it after our trip to Buchan caves! Lovely.

Thankyou

Found it on our long weekend in Lakes TFTC

Found while in Buchan for Matt’s wedding

Found with GeoHubby TB142 and GeoFriend RogerZ1956 and Nature Girl.TFTC

Found with geowife kezza1211 naturegirl and rogerz1956 tftc

Tftc. Found with tb142 kezza1211 and naturegirl.

Quick find. TFTC.

Called in here to hear the Bellbirds, must`ve made too much noise getting out of Zygy because we couldn`t hear them. Cigc. Tftc

Stopped in here to find the cache and see if we can find any Bellbirds. We found the cache. tftc

We made the stop in here on our way back to camp. We didn't hear any birds, but we did find the cache. tftc

Chose to head home for the long weekend via this way. Was a quick find and the cache was in ok condition. Tftc tnln

Found with mezza74. I should say found back in 2013 as muggles while out with a caching friend. I can not believe it has taken so long to finally claim the find, particularly as we have driven past it numerous times over the years. Today with a gap in my finds calendar and having to go up to Buchan for family reasons today we pulled over to make a quick find.

Thanks

With geo-sister wanting a cache today did a quick park and grab on the way up to Buchan. Found the cache exactly where I spotted it years ago as a muggle.

TFTC

Warm day, no Bellbirds, lots of cars for the holiday.

On a day trip - nice location. TFTC.

Cute easy little find
Great for kids
Didn't take a swap just added some swaps
Put back nice and safe

Great peaceful location . TFTC

Tftc

Find number 8569 at 2:02:02 pm
On holidays in Lakes Entrance for the week and decided to go for a trip up to Buchan (even though the caves were closed) and check out the area.
Singing proudly at the top of their voices as I signed the log
Dropped Dinasaur TB
Cache logged with sanitised hands.
**Thanks for placing this cache Poiter.h**

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TFTC
We found the cache quite damp and evidence of water below the cache.
Any soggy rubbish was removed and we provided a new bag to keep the log dry.
Lots of small birds to be heard here including
Whip birds, fly catchers, Maggie’s, Willi wagtails, etc but no Bell Miners to be seen or heard... maybe this territorial colony has moved on since the ferocious fires of Summer 2019/20, as this place has been scorched.
Hopefully some breeding pairs survived.

I’ve lived with Bellbirds in the background virtually all through my childhood till I was almost 30. I was a bit disappointed today when I couldn’t hear many , although the rain may have quietened them. Fine weather makes them more vocal. The ground was very wet and slippery adding a bit of danger to retrieving the cache. I found the most likely spot for the hide. The-Evil-Muggle got there before I could and stopped me from crossing a slippery route to the cache. Such nobility!

Didn't hear any bellbirds today, but did find a cache! Thank you

TFTC
Found with Mozza2013.
Love the sounds of the bellbirds!

TFTC found with Ayah79

Found. Such a beautiful sound

A quick park and grab with Whafe on our way to the caves. TFTC!

#1247

Beautiful stop on the way to buchan caves! Very glad the cache survived the recent fires! Thanks for the cache!! Found with -minn

Raemoz found it. Bellbirds aplenty. So lucky this cache survived the recent fires. The 2 photos are taken about 20m apart. Tftc

On our Buchan run relief rebuild trip for the bushfire victims. Mornington Peninsula mates giving a hand to rebuild. Great weekend meeting new people and getting to know the locals.
Had to pick up a cache or two on the way home. TFTC

Now we know bellbirds. Thank you for showing this place and tftc.

Out and about and this cache was on the list. An easy find with the bell birds whistling in the background deserves a favourite point. Our thanks to the Greynomads for the cache,
Regards
The Coffee's

First cache for us today after having breakfast at Bruthen Bakery, the day looked like one out of the box. Like others have noted, the birds were quite active as we pulled up, with a quick find at GZ.

Thanks for taking over this cache Poiter, also to Bill & Diana for its placement.

Bellbird Home was transferred from greynomads to user Poiter.h

As soon as I stopped the car I could hear the whistles,I then soon found the cache once the gps settled
TFTC

I have driven from Melbourne today to visit the Buchan Caves. We did both cave and we were very happy with them. I found this cache on the way to Lakes Entrance where we are going to have some dinner. Cache was a quick find and yes I could hear all the birds. TFTC.

As the name suggests the sound of Bellbirds in the background at GZ. A well kept cache in a lovely location. TFTC.

Find 4 of 11 for today. Map 32 of the UBD Victorian challenge ticked off. Found this cache with Bunadoorian and enjoyed listening to the bellbirds! TFTC greynomads

Good spot birds sound amazing

Travel bug not there

The s were in fine voice today.

Stoped and got a good suprise at this one amasing sounds the birds are making, was on my way to Buchan caves and on to Jindabyne.

We are on vacation in Australia and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one! Great to hear the sound. Wow. For that a favo.
Greetings from the Dutch.

Yes, we heard the Bell birds. TFTC

Found on our way to Bairnsdale for Christmas. TFTC

Found on a beautiful sunny day. Nice easy drive by.

Great enjoy trip to here from countryside..
Easy spot, sign the log with ALL7..TFTC

Great enjoy trip to here from countryside..
Easy spot, sign the log with 63ROOS... Thanks

What a great weekend away with n0w0rries.
We visited the Snowy River, a gorge and a waterfall.
Celebrated with friends and now it's time to head for home.
A few caches on the way through to finish off our visit.
So many bellbirds here. We hadn't noticed them until now but even after driving off many more were seen and heard.
Thank you for placing this cache and bringing them to our attention, greynomads.

Lots of Bellbirds and some Swallows too.
Stopped by with +Wife and our Geomutts, EveTheStaffy and MaxTheCollie, on our way home from Gelantipy.
Thanks for the cache greynomads.

Found after a weekend away from Tassie racing on the Buchan-Orbost Road! Heard the Bellbirds... they are quite loud! TFTC

The dead deer is still here

The dead deer is sadly still here but the birds are very lovely to hear

Beautiful spot. Minus the decapitated deer in the gutter

This is an example of the best of geocaching. Sharing a wonderful bird call location we would never have found ourselves. Sunny day at 11.45am they were loud and many.

Easy find on way back from Buchan Caves..left a hand..tftc

Easy find in the rain after an amazing visit to Buchan Caves, TN Left TB TFTC

As per previous logs it was lovely listening to all the bell birds. All good with the cache. TFTC greynomads

Stopped off to do a cache check - all is well. We added a pencil, a plastic doll and a Geocoin from Scouting America.

Greynomads ------ Bill and Diana

A quick find today..bellbirds singing beautifully. TFTC

The birds were full of song today. Thank you for bringing us here to enjoy.

With the misty rain and fog, the sounds of these birds created such an interesting mood. Thanks for bringing us here.

Over the years, geocaching has taken me on many adventures, including interesting destinations all over my home continent of Australia and many overseas as well. It has also introduced me to a diverse group of like-minded caching tragics, many of whom I now call close friends.

Today, I was lucky enough to be out and about searching for caches, something I do on almost a daily basis. This was one cache that was targeted and found.

Sorry for the late and generic log, something I am notorious for. Thank you greynomadsfor adding to the adventure that is geocaching.

Quick find, found on friday

Found by the youngest geokid quick as who logged at 1528hrs, while the geo-dog logged her own cache. Up from Melbourne caving and caching this new year weekend.

On our way to Caves Hotel for tea Buchan got a couple of caches the bellbirds were a singing

Continuing my journey through Victoria to pick up caches for the Victorian LGA Polygon Challenge & Victoria Country Road Atlas Challenge. Managed to get another 3 maps (3 to go) ticked off and 1 LGA's (many to go). TFTC.

Great spot, just came back from Buchan caves heading back to Metung, easy find.

Wow, this was really a strange sound what these birds make. It was all over when I searched for the cache. Really cool to lettin us stop, otherwise we would not have recognize these birds.

Thanks for this Cache say the Rukos from Germany