No Whistling-ducks at Jerrabomberra this morning

[Martin Butterfield <>]

At about 1430 this afternoon I counted 54 Plumed Whistling Ducks at Trucking Yard Lane.  Half were standing a metre or so back from the dam while the others were bunked down between the waterline and the rim of the dam.  They just seemed to be sheltering from the wind and not feeding as observed by Julienne.

I didn't have time to stop to count the Shelducks at Bungendore Meadow but there were a lot of them.  I would agree with Julienne's count of at least 100, possibly approaching the 150 seem recently by Mark Clayton.  (I did shout out that their presence was needed at Kelly's Swamp to boost people's ACT year lists but I am not sure they heard me.)

Martin

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 13 March 2015 at 16:15, Julienne Kamprad <> wrote:

Plumed Whistlers

There were approx 50 Plumed Whistling Ducks on or around the Trucking Yard dam yesterday, Thursday, evening at 6pm. Many were foraging in the dam itself. This is the first time I have observed them eating.

I believe there were some at Kellys at the same time.

Shelducks

There were also at least 100 Shelducks around the Bungendore Meadow dam. There seemed plenty of both male and female but I did not have time to do a proper count of the two sexes

Julienne