The first thing I heard yesterday afternoon as I opened the car door at
the McDermott Place carpark on Lake Ginninderra was an Olive-backed
Oriole calling. While tracking down what turned out to be a pair in a
nearby tree, I came across a dark-morph White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike,
only the second of these that I've seen in Canberra. The orioles were
eventually chased away by a particularly belligerent White-plumed
Honeyeater. The other observation of note was a single Nankeen Night
Heron in the usual stand of casuarinas up towards Ginninderra Drive.
There were probably more skulking in the branches, but I find them to be
frustratingly difficult to spot for such a large bird.
John Brannan
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