Well, it seems to be the trip-reporting season. I just
spent 2 weeks to our north, so herewith a few notes and comments, in
instalments. First night at Nyngan. Quite a few birds, as usual,
around the wetland at what appears to be the outflow of the sewage ponds.
Here the Eremophila was in flower, attracting various honeyeaters, particularly
Little Friarbirds –
The Eremophila and other shrubs
were in flower along much of the road to Bourke, but on this occasion I didn’t
pause to check out that interesting vegetation along the disused rail line that
parallels the highway. At the Rest Stop a few ks short of Bourke, I did
take a break to have a swig of Canberra water and chew on a muesli bar and was
immediately set on by a flock of intrusive and traveller-habituated Lousy
Jacks. Gave a new meaning to ‘Hungry Jacks’ which,
coincidentally, was the fare they might have been expecting from passing
truckies. I appeased them with a fragment of crumbled muesli bar, some
individuals claiming more than their fair share of this meagre offering –
