My eagle-eyed wife spotted
what she thought was a quail foraging under the azaleas outside our
bedroom window this morning. Mad scramble for binos followed, the
forager turning out to be a solitary Painted Button-quail. The last
time I saw one of those it was on Mt Ainslie, so I'm at a loss to
explain how one has ended up in a garden in Florey.
According to Philip's GBS report, there had been no records of PBQs in
the Garden Bird Survey at the time the report was published. Well, now
there's one.
John Brannan
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36 Challinor Cres., Florey, Canberra ACT 2615, Australia
Ph.: (+612) 6258 6038 Fax: (+612) 6258 6238
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