! And another 2 days later at Cheltenham Park ! (also Melbourne)
At 9am today I saw a Buff-banded Rail a bit east of the entry
road in a mulched area, dominated by Coast Tea-tree where I was
looking for the resident Common Bronzewings, without success. It
ran east.
This is a "Nobody-would-ever-believe-it" species. Wrong habitat.
No records from City of Bayside or the swamps that were nearby
in the 1940s. But I have seen a few (including a tame one,
rather like that at the Sydney Botanic Gardens) at Braeside
Park.
Perhaps it bumped into this area. As I said on a recent
posting, it is so high for this part of Melbourne that some
species avoid it.
So please anyone. Creep up there at dawn tomorrow to check - no
I mean confirm - the sighting.
Michael Norris
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