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Esme and I were at Kellys Swamp this morning from 7am til
about 8.45am.
Plenty of birds active. Amongst them a couple of
uncommon/unusual - adult Buff-banded Rail (which gave us nice views from
Cygnus hide) and from the same location but in the distance at the reedbeds,
Spotless Crake with chick. Actually, 2 Spotless Crakes but only one stayed
visible for very long and this was the one which had the chick following after
it.
Also present and nice to see were a Lathams Snipe, a Royal
Spoonbill and an immature Black-fronted Dotterel - as well as Glossy Ibis,
Black-winged Stilt, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, an Intermediate Egret flying over
and at the southern end, a Pallid Cuckoo as well as a fox, looking at
the birds but apparently not hungry enough (or perhaps not brave enough in the
daylight) to go out onto the mudflats.
Bruce Ramsay
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