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Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Plumed Whistling-Duck at Bungendore

To: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Subject: Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Plumed Whistling-Duck at Bungendore
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:53:59 +1100
The exercise of running over to the fence must have tired them out.  By 1600 hrs they were back resting on the grass between the Hoskinstown Rd (HR) Dam and the delightful Bungendore Meadows slum.  

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I also checked the Trucking Yard Lane (TYL) dam where Pacific Black Ducks were very evident as were many cockatoos.  My total estimates for the two sites were :

TYL HR Total
43 Crested Pigeon 6 6
202 Australian Wood Duck 10 10
205 Plumed Whistling Duck 15 15
207 Australian Shelduck 3 43 46
208 Pacific Black Duck 49 100 149
211 Grey Teal 50 50
271 Little Corella 2 2
269 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 200 200 400
273 Galah 50 100 150
357 Welcome Swallow 2 2
954 Little Raven 10 20 30

At one point I thought I heard a Koel calling, but when I turned off the car radio (broadcasting an interview, from Brisbane, with Shane Watson that noise disappeared.  On a further sporting note, if watching lotsa dux is not exciting enough this afternoon was livened up by mounted cowpersons-in-training attempting to round up some cattle in the next paddock over.  My score was cattle 5 Cowpersons 0.


On 16 November 2013 16:35, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

In a light drizzle at 2pm they were resting among other ducks by the dam off Hoskinstown Rd, when they formed into a discrete single-species platoon and marched over the shoulder of the dam, streaming  yellow plumes pointing crazily in all directions, then re-appeared to strut 200m across the paddock to the northern fence, past the indifferent cockatoos and grazing shelduck.  About 22 in all, despite the below composite

 

 

 

From: Suzanne Edgar [
Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013 2:46 PM
To: 'KAMPRAD';
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Plumed Whistling-Duck at Bungendore

 

I saw them today in co. with Erika

Sz




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