I went to Kellys swamp
Friday, saw spotless crake,
Australian spotted and Baillons crakes feeding in the channel at various times. Most
exciting for me was to finally see 4 greenfinches which came down to drink on
the south side of the channel. 2 common bronzewings (1 juvenile, 1 adult), 2 red
kneed dotterels, 4 black fronted dotterels, 2 shelducks, chestnut teal (1 or 2
males wasn't sure if the same bird), I wont
even try to guess the sandpiper, 1 yellow thornbill. I think I made a
comment in the past that I wondered why the grebes had left Kellys. Well over
about ½ hour the stilt walked over much of the middle part of the swamp, they
have long legs but they arn't that long, the depth must only be 10-40cm or less
at the moment. A young fox came to the edge of the swamp on dusk, a lot of the
ducks moved towards the fox, presumably mobbing.
Went to the Brindies Sat
afternoon. Walked from Bulls head down Bendora dam road to Warks road and back.
Saw 2 flame robins feeding nestlings, the nest was in the top of a burnt stump
near a frog filled dam at Bulls head end. 1 rose robin. Gang gangs. Heard leaden
flycatcher. I think I heard 2 olive whistlers, deep in a wet gully, it matched
exactly the description in the book, but I am not really sure. There were so
many scrubwrens, at one stage 5 were mobbing me, getting to within 1m, perhaps
they are unused to humans now the road is closed. The vegetation was
surprisingly green in the gullys, good recovery of tree ferns and the wet gullys
have recovered well. On the ridges where trees were killed there is amazing
variety of understory and lots of seedling gums. Some Derwentias, Lomandras and
I think a senecio were finishing
flowering.
Benj
Whitworth
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