Down by that section of the lake opposite W’bourne Woods & behind the garden café, Y’lumla, & just down slope, perched on largish tree on lake’s edge down from the 2 garden sheds, more particularly from the green wooden one:
for a long while I watched either a juv Austn Little Bittern or a juv Nankeen Night Heron; I think the former. but am in 2 minds because I had neither f guide nor binocs with me; but I sat watching on a low log near water’s edge for a long time; the neck
was hunched in rather than extended. I think on mature reflection & consultation with the f guides that it was the Little Bittern.
Neither the bowerbirds nor the n. miners were v keen on this quite unperturbed bird.
Sz
