This morning I undertook an early morning vigil for the
Black-tailed Native-hen and observed two birds.
Cheers
Alastair
From: Damien Farine [
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2007 7:42 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Black-tailed Native-hen take 2
Milburn and I headed out to Urriara
homestead dam this afternoon to check out the Black-tailed Native-hen reported
by Martin today. Without initial success, we settled in for a long
afternoon wait, keeping a close eye on the gate and surrounding mud banks.
Before we knew it, it was running down the bank and spent some time drinking
and preening within centimeters of the gate. When we left it, it had
moved to the top of the bank.
On the way back, we found a group of 30+ migrating woodswallows flying south
along the Murrumbidgee, which consisted of mostly white-browed with several
masked amongst them.
All in all, a very successful afternoon for some!
Cheers,
Damien
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