Vale Kellys Swamp ...

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Subject:	Vale Kellys Swamp ...
From:	"Esme Barker & Bruce Ramsay" <>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:15:31 +1100

for now anyway. Until rain I presume.

I went out there today from about 10.30 to 11.30. Essentially, there is no more swamp. It's dried mud with just a damp sheen left where the last puddle was a day or so ago.

Only one waterbird in sight - a Buff-banded Rail on the damp ex-puddle. No sign of the Spotless Crakes - but presumably the chicks are either hiding up in the reedbeds or have gone to God in the heat and dry. Certainly the one Esme and I saw on Sunday morning would not have been able to seek a more amenable place by flying there - it was just a tiny little black fluffball.

Have attached a pic - its a sorry sight at the moment but I guess its all part of nature's rhythm.

Bruce Ramsay

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