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| Subject: | Lunchtime at Kellys Swamp |
| From: | martin butterfield <> |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:57:14 +1100 |
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Between about 11:45 and 12:45 today I spotted about 4 Black-tailed Native Hens, 2 Black-winged Stilts and several each of Australian White and Straw-necked Ibises. Also Purple Swamp Hens copulating. A major eruption of the ducks occurred when a Swamp Harrier flew over (the first I have seen for several months) and later a Whistling Kite soared overhead, heading off in the general direction of Callum Brae. No Royal Spoonbills anywhere in sight. On checking the article in the December 2008 Canberra Bird Notes the first tangible evidence of breeding activity (a bird carrying a stick to what became the nest tree) was reported by Alastair Smith and Geoff Duggan on 26 October. However it seems that the birds had only turned up the previous day (reports by Juian Robinson and Sue Lashko) so there is still time for them to appear! Martin |
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