Hospital Creek field trip reminder

[Julian Robinson <>]

There's still plenty of space on this Sunday's walk to the Hospital Ck
hut area.  The Gang-gang notification is repeated below containing
the useful info.  No promises but this area has hosted some
interesting birds and some of the best post-fire bush I know of with easy
access.  Weather at this stage is "Possible shower 24
degrees" but it is changing daily and just as likely to be
fine.  Good walking weather!     Note the
distance and that some walking is off-track along the creek.  We are
meeting at Kambah VIllage shops, corner of Marconi Crescent and Drakeford
Drive, at 7:30.


Julian

Sunday 7 December
? Hospital Hill ? Extended morning
The last formal COG
outing for 2008 will be held in this popular nature reserve to the south
of Canberra, and will be a
repeat of the highly successful 2006 trip. We will again be parking and
using the toilets at Yankee Hat car park, then
walking in. Entirely within COG grid cell H25, we'll do a longish
circular or figure-of-8 walk following both the road
and the creek, lunching on the creek again at the 'historic' c1966
Hospital Creek Hut. We can be flexible about the exact
route, which will depend on where the birds are and the weather on the
day.

On the previous walk to this area we dipped on the
Turquoise Parrots
that had been seen a week
before, but were
treated to a Brush Cuckoo
that sat in full view of
the lunching crowd for a considerable time. Other highlights were
Brown Treecreepers
and
Dusky Woodswallow
with dependent young, two
Australian Hobbies, Rufous
Songlark,
Brown-headed and
Fuscous Honeyeaters, Satin
and
Leaden Flycatchers,
Fan-tailed Cuckoo and for
a lucky few, a
Red-browed
Treecreeper.

The walk will be around
11 km and some of it cross country, so you will need to be moderately
fit. If you are interested
in participating, please contact Julian Robinson (6239 6226 or by E-mail
on


). We will
meet at the Kambah Village shops at 7:30 am, so we can consolidate cars
and get to the Yankee Hut car park well before
9 am.



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