Hi all
I spent 90 minutes at the bot gardens yesterday afternoon. I
started with about half an hour sitting on Tom Green’s seat, watching the
bathing birds; these included Red Wattlebird, New Holland Honeyeater, Eastern
Spinebill, Eastern Rosella, and a single female Crescent Honeyeater. The
Crescent came down the slope from the grevilleas, had a quick bath and preen
and headed back up the slope. One of the bathing New Hollands was a juvenile,
with brown in the back and a dark eye. Tom’s seat is on the path in the
paperbarks and tea trees section, between beds 9 and 10, and is a great spot to
watch birds closely.
I observed a Brown Thornbill carrying nesting material into
some shrubs next to the toilet block on the eucalypt lawn, although I could not
find the nest. There were also plenty of bowerbirds calling in quite a few
sections of the gardens.
No sign of Little Wattlebird, Bassian Thrush or Rose Robin.
Cheers
Anthony