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Greenshank, Freckled Duck and Horsfields Bronze-Cuckoo

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Subject: Greenshank, Freckled Duck and Horsfields Bronze-Cuckoo
From: Bill Jolly <>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:29:22 +1000
Saw my first Greenshank for the spring on Saturday at Seven Mile Lagoon, in the 
Lockyer Valley.

Lots of water, many hundreds of birds, a few Red-capped Plovers, only saw one 
Red-necked Avocet, there is usually a group of twenty-plus there. No other 
sandpipers yet. Heaps of Australian Shovelers, Pink-eared Duck and so on.

I counted 26 Banded Plovers nearby - spaced around a paddock in pairs at what 
looked like nesting distances to me.

At home on Sunday, I was walking in the garden when I spotted a Horsfield's 
Bronze-Cuckoo on the verandah deck. It was sitting low, head up, beak open, and 
from a distance I thought it might have been a young bird, particular because 
it just stayed and stayed. When I snuck into the house and got close to it from 
inside.,it proved to be a well-coloured adult - maybe it had hit a window and 
was in a state of recovery.

I was able to get some fairly close snaps of the cuckoo, which I've put on 
www.abberton.org.holding.htm along with a few others from the weekend, 
including one of the Freckled Duck which is still at Lake Apex at Gatton. It 
spends a lot of time hunkered down on or close against an island, and the photo 
still isn't a good one, but I'll keep trying.

Bill Jolly

"Abberton",
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
27º 34' 21" S; 152º 08' 21" E)

Visit our website at www.abberton.org




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