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This afternoon I went to the Namadgi visitors
centre in an unsuccessful wish to see the Spotless Crakes. I arrived just as a
heavy rain shower occurred. One of the staff said he had seen five of them
there.
After that I went to Castle Hill (near Tharwa) only
for a short time. As I started, a flock of about 20 Diamond Firetails and 30
Yellow-rumped Thornbills & 3 Hooded Robins all arrived and perched in one
(metre high) rose hip bush. Overhead lots of Fuscous & Brown-headed
Honeyeaters going the same way. And then they all continued on, flying west. I
don't know what caused the mass movement. Maybe a predator, there was a Grey
Butcherbird singing from about the direction they had come from. A rather magic
moment in miniature.
Philip
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