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I don't think anyone has written about there
lately. There can't be many places that have such a compact and easy to get to
place to see such a range of waterbirds. I spent a bit over an hour at Kelly's
Swamp & Fyshwick Sewage Ponds on Friday afternoon. All through my newish
Leica binoculars, this is almost a whole new experience. Still well worth a
look, with 2 Freckled Ducks (one with slight red beak base), about 28
Pink-eared Ducks, 5 Blue-billed Ducks on FSP pond 6, plus the other common
species, about 30 Shovellers at KS. A little flock of 15 Double-barred Finches
(always a favourite of mine) beside FSP pond 6, which is a rather big group
for these parts, to round off, one Little Eagle, one Whistling Kite &
one B-s Kite and Cisticolas although those I saw had full tails. (How does
Geoffrey get close enough to these tiny birds to get a photo like appeared last
week.)
Philip
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