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Royal Spoonbill

To: Suzanne EDGAR <>
Subject: Royal Spoonbill
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:57:35 +0000
I have stayed there on work junkets a few times in the 1990s (just after it opened).  The bird life wan't as good as Suzanne reports but I do remember being very pleased I wasn't responsible for the bill!




On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 08:54, Suzanne EDGAR <> wrote:

Discovered top motel @ B Bay last w’end: Lincoln Downs, part of which abuts  the right-hand verge of Princes Highway (if travelling  nth) just after the roundabout that enters the town.

Behind it but in the grounds are lovely green tree-shaded (unpeopled) lawns sloping down to a small lake (c.f. Jerra.) w many fine water-birds: lotsa roy spoonbills, gt egrets, pair little bitterns, 6 darters drying out on a log, a koel calling: whoa, an azure kingfisher, dollarbirds hawking plus all the usual suspects…. All of these emerging c. 8-8.30 in the morn when one can walk out on a wooden boardwalk to a small rotunda/folly & sit @ ease observing.

Recommend.

Sz

 

 

From: shorty [
Sent: Monday, 28 January 2019 8:07 AM
To: COG Chat <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Royal Spoonbill

 

One of the 5 at Jerrabomberra Wetlands at the moment. Juvenile going into adult plumage?

 

Shorty

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