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Oh boy, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday, I reported how I
returned home to find Noisy Friarbirds whizzing about and calling every time I
went outside. Apparently, they'd been around for a few days. Different story
today. Except for one calling for about 60 seconds in the distance, I
encountered nary a one.
Arrived at the Bruce Campus of CIT to pick up Brat #1 this afternoon but
was an hour too early. Teenagers can be irritatingly vague about timing. So I
took my binos and went birding for 45 minutes and checked off 14 species.
Highlights: Blue-tongue Lizard, Grey Currawong, two Pacific Black Ducks waddling
to-and-fro along a horizontal limb high in a big gumtree. Olive-backed Orioles
building their nest. In a scrubby area, near the carparks, I put up five Brown
Quail.
Went to the canteen for a burgher and Coke, and walked up the corridor
towards darling daughter's classroom, and was confronted by an angry, impatient
brat. "Where have you been? I've been waiting here for twenty minutes." Nag,
nag, nag.
John Layton
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