Greetings. Noela and I had a very pleasant time in COG
grid F18 at the weekend: Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
Highlights included the following:
- great to see that part of the wetland precinct has
been reopened, with a beaut elevated walk and renewed
lookout places
- crippling views from the 'boardwalk' of a platypus,
and a highly aggressive male Musk Duck there too
(wonder if it is pinioned?)
- just inside the waterbirds area entrance gate, in a
single tree: Rufous Whistlers feeding dependent young
and White-naped HEs doing the same, with a White-eared
HE following suite just 20 metres distant
- a pair of Satin Flycatchers along the Fishing Gap
Road: the male was feeding a juvenile, while mum went
about her own business
- quite striking was the virtual absence of small bush
birds, to wit Brown Thornbills and White-browed
Scrubwrens, in the thick regenerating ground cover
along Fishing Gap Road. Indeed, from bottom to top and
down again, I observed Brown Thornbills in just one
spot by the roadside but no Scrubwrens at all. Perhaps
the type of regrowth just does not suit them?
David
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