Hi All
Painted Buttonquail have featured on Mayfair Rd Mulgoa (50 km west of
Sydney over the past two weeks.
Firstly numerous platelets were noted in wet roadside leaf litter, I
thought they might be just Blackbirds or even bandicoots both of which are
local.
But then a fine fat bright female Painted Buttonquail ran off from the
roadside at the 60 speed sign. I has another look at the platelets and they
were indeed "platelets".'
A day later there was repeated "booming" from behind the adjacent bio
banked bush.
Then today a tiny pingpong ball sized chick ran up the gutter just below
the Biobank sign, cheeping for its dad who ran across the road.
The cryptically brown/grey/ striped chick eventually managed to get out of
the gutter by climbing up a pile of debris and magically disappeared before my
eyes, into the short grass and leaf litter.
Other recent notables; Variegated Fairywrens and Varied Sitella, plus
perhaps fifty plus other spp, many with fledglings, in a wonderful birding year
reminiscent of a couple of decades past, when the early morning walk routinely
visualised well over fifty bird species .
Brown Quail are regular breeders in Mulgoa Valley, and yesterday they
were calling as well.
Cheers
Michael
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