Fantastic day at Newline yesterday. Birds everywhere. Grey Shrike
Thrushes, Fairy Wrens, Speckled Warblers, Jacky Winters, Red browed Finches,
Diamond Firetails, Golden Whistlers, Kookaburras, Grey Butcherbird,
Weebills, Southern Whitefaces, Rosellas, Red Rumps etc. - and a GOLF BALL.
But this was no ordinary golf ball. Despite being branded "Slazenger B51
3" it looks more like a volcano sitting on a rounded base than the object
traditionally belted around by Tiger Woods. In fact judging by the shape
I'd say something probably tried to hatch it! The odds of someone having a
practice swing at Newline would be pretty remote so the Raven once again
looks a likely suspect - long way from the nearest course though, probably
about half way between Duntroon and Royal Queanbeyan.
Some nice birding Wed & Thurs afternoons at the Kathner St end of Coolamon
Ridge, with Diamond Firetails, female Scarlet Robin, White eared and White
Plumed Honeyeaters, and 14 Straw necked Ibis flying over in classic "V"
formation. Earlier in the week saw a pair of Wedgies perched beside
Erindale Dr up from Sulwwood, BS Kite hovering at the Mugga Lane tip, a pair
of Grey Shrike Thrushes in a suburban garden in Wanniassa, and a small bat
circling as I finished work in semi darkness in Wanniassa on Monday. First
time I have seen a bat in Canberra.
Cheers
Rod
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