Back in 2010 I photographed a lyrebird's nest (didn't know that was what it was at the time I took the photo) right next to the road towards the bottom of Mt McDonald, but I never saw it being used in my weekly bike ride past that
spot, and it gradually deteriorated over the next few months. I thought at the time that the lyrebird had probably been disturbed from its normal range by the Cotter Dam construction work.
See
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds/2010-08/msg00093.html
Nick
On 22/06/2015 09:05, Judy wrote:
I and other Uriarra residents have seen a lyrebird several times on Brindabella Road near Mt MacDonald (heading towards Cotter Road from the village). I'm not sure of their range but maybe there's a resident lyrebird there. No-one I've spoken to has seen
more than one at a time.
Judy Middlebrook
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Very cool! I saw a Lyrebird last week, just where the Brindabella Road becomes dirt.
On 21 Jun 2015 6:16 pm, "Philip Veerman" < m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");">> 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
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Veerman [mailto:m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");" target="_blank">m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");">]
Sent: Sunday, 3 August 2003 5:50 PM
To: Cog line
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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