At Tidbinbilla this morning, in the wetlands area, a Black Swan pair
were piggybacking a single very small cygnet.
and a Pacific Duck was shepherding 4 very small ducklings (<1 week
old?) on the water.
(Similar species, but perhaps younger offspring?, than Bruce Ramsay's
observations from Pt Hut Pond posted on 18 April - but could the
Ranger-provided food supply here at Tidbinbilla effect breeding?).
Other birds; in the wetlands area, a flock of very noisy Satin Bower
birds, one adult male with what seemed to be more than 6
female/immature males, in and around a feeding station.
5 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos flew overhead. A female Scarlet Robin.
The only honeyeaters visible to my amateur eye were the occasional
single White-eared.
Approaching the Tid reserve entrance through the grassland from the
main road, at least two Australasian Pipits were on and off the fencing
and down into the grass
At Casuarina Sands on the way out, one Little Bl. Cormorant and a pair
of Scarlet Robins.
Robin Hide
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