As Michael says, Frank, when counting it is so important
to look twice at each individual duck. It is easy to mistake some species
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Subject: Blue-bills
26 must surely be the record?? I think the most
I've ever counted has
been about 12 or so.
Regards
Frank
>> Counted yesterday (22 April) waterbirds on the
ponds, notable (at least
>> for me) was the high proportion of Australasian
Grebes (AG), making up
>> almost a third of the small grebes (63 AG versus
139 Hoary-headed
>> Grebes),
>> in the past I had seen there only a few AGs. But
I recall a fairly
>> recent
>> message to the chat line also reporting good
numbers of AGs, certainly
>> something different.
>>
>> Also a total of 26 Blue-billed Ducks and 5
Cattle Egrets at Kelly'sl
>>
>> Michael Lenz
>
>
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