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Birding highlight of a week at the coast was
a Buff-banded Rail. I would have thought these would be usually be
associated with dense swampy habitat, but this one had been hanging around a
well ordered garden in suburban Long Beach for a week. It was crouched low
in the pumpkin patch but would stretch tall to take grubs, spiders or whatever
from the underside of the vine leaves, then move about to other parts of the
garden, but disappear when harassed by Magpies, Bowerbirds etc.
Certainly a nice first for me.
A couple of other firsts were a pair of
Yellow-tufted Honeyeaters along the Buckenbowra River, and hearing the call of
the Azure Kingfisher for the first time despite numerous previous
sightings.
Cheers
Rod
Rod Mackay
Tel. 0407 456 330
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