4 weeks ago there were 2 Eastern Yellow Robins in the pool below Tom
Green's seat. New territory?
Muriel
At 05:02 PM 17/03/2009, you wrote:
I was recently corrected that
when referring to a "reptile infested grassland" I should have
said "reptile enhanced grassland". Today the ANBG
featured reptile enhanced bitumen: see first image. At somewhat over
1.6m, light brown, and slim it reminded me of Shirley Bassey (although I
didn't hear it sing).
I then walked on around the gardens seeing a few birds. There were
a lot of White-browed Scrubwrens: I didn't try to count them but over my
whole route I would not have been surprised to tally at least 50.
The highlights for me were:
- in the Rainforest Gully a pair of King Parrots up close and
personable and a Rufous Fantail. For the latter I achieved a
personal best of getting my camera out, lens cap off and software fired
up of 11.5 seconds. Unfortunately the bird had somewhere else to be
after 11 seconds flat.
- More co-operative was one of two eastern Yellow Robins behind Tom
Green's seat. See second image: the pose reminded me very much of
the classic English Robin pose on the handle of a fork!
I think Anthony Overs has commented on the pleasure of sitting on
Tom's seat and watching the birds come to you (or at least the water near
by. It was a great 30 minutes.
Martin
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