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Kellys - Lewins Rail and Aus Shelduck [SEC=PERSONAL]

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Subject: Kellys - Lewins Rail and Aus Shelduck [SEC=PERSONAL]
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:04:02 +1100

After Dan left it appeared only for a minute in the following hour, stayed in the typha.  Only record shots.  Lucky to get this much of a view.  It did call, a soft warning nasal ‘tsin .... tsin, tsin’ but only when in sight or thin cover.

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Kellys - Lewins Rail and Aus Shelduck [SEC=PERSONAL]

 

Thanks for the report Neil.

 

I went to look for the Lewin’s Rail briefly yesterday evening but not much around. Returned this morning and finally managed brief views of a Lewins Rail and a Spotless Crake in Crake Alley. However the water levels had risen considerably overnight and the birds were staying well back within the reeds. Quite different from the picture a few weeks back when the Spotless Crakes (including the young bird with the white front that I believe a few others have also seen this summer) were showing really well out on the mud. I missed the Lewin’s Rail then (reported by Pete Milburn) despite about 6 early morning and evening visits.

 

An Aus Shelduck also twice circled over Geoffrey Dabb and myself as we waiting for the crakes/rails to show again. It then flew over the road as I was driving out and landed towards the back of the Fyshwick ponds.

 

Cheers Dan

 

Dr Daniel Mantle

Timescales Project

Petroleum Prospectivity & Promotion

Geoscience Australia

 

Ph. +61 (2) 6249 5831 (work)

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From: Neil Montgomery [
Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 3:54
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Kellys this morning 11/2

 

Kellys is dry but there is a little water in the reedbeds where the channel narrows west of Ardea Hide. There was a Spotless Crake and a Lewins Rail there this morning (11/2).
Neil

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