Yes I am sure I heard a lyrebird at almost exactly the same spot as Philip did today too! At about 1.30pm. Thanks for posting Philip or I'd have written it off as wishful thinking. I popped down to Kambah Pool with my own 'hatchling' (baby daughter)
for 20mins of bird watching and managed to spot a WT Eagle and a WT Treecreeper (very close). Worthwhile.
Cheers, Joanne
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:23:16 +1000
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Subject: FW: [cog-l] Kambah Pool: Lyrebird & Platypus
Very cool! I saw a Lyrebird last week, just where the Brindabella Road becomes dirt.
On 21 Jun 2015 6:16 pm, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:
As shown here this is an old trend but my first noticing it for at least a year. I heard a
Lyrebird
from across the other side of the river from the Kambah Pool car park at about 3:50 this afternoon.
Philip
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Subject: [cog-l] Kambah Pool: Lyrebird & Platypus
Repeating my message from last year:
"Most years I write a message to this list about the closest place from Canberra to hear a Superb Lyrebird. Well it is there again, or two this time. Directions are, take
the walking track from Kambah Pool towards Pine Island. Stop and listen where the big powerlines cross overhead (about 20 minutes walk time from the carpark). The birds can be heard singing from the opposite side of the river. I heard it yesterday but not
a week ago."
Even though the area is blocked off, I was naughty and went in regardless. This was on Saturday (2-8-03) for the first time since it was burnt out. It is so different. Most of the
trees are resprouting but there is no shrub layer whatever and the whole range on the opposite side of the river is barren except for the trees. Whereas before, you couldn't see the ground at all. Anyway although there were few birds, I did hear the Superb
Lyrebird again, although it appeared to be much further away (perhaps on the southern side of the range), the other highlight was I had a long look at a Platypus in the Murrumbidgee. It is the first time I have seen one there. I
was high above it, though in an area that previously would have been too densely vegetated to get too, let alone see down into the river from. There were at least 4 Scarlet Robins there and about 4 Tree Martins also.
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