Last year Geoffrey Dabb conducted an interesting survey on birds
that overwinter in Canberra but belong to species that are generally
accepted as being migrants, that leave us in autumn and return the
following spring.
Last Saturday, 25th June, a group of us did a circumnavigation of
Lake Ginniderra, and in the vicinity of the boat ramp at MacDermott
Place we observed this Australian reed-warbler. It was originally
in the reeds but ascended a casuarina as we watched, apparently
searching for food. As far as I remember, it was silent the whole
time.
I think it has been proposed previously that some A. reed-warblers
might stay through winter but are generally overlooked as they are
not calling through this period. We reported an A. reed-warbler
last year in the same location, on the 31st July.
Tony Willis
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