Overnight showers sprinkled the local oval dissolving desiccated doggie does and bringing larvae and other packages of avian protein towards the surface – maybe there’s
a connection. Anyhow, as I was returning to the warmth of the car 38 Straw-necked Ibis landed and patrolled stoically like soldiers carrying out a lackadaisical emu parade. Less than a minute later nine more arrived followed by a further 25, totalling 72.
A perusal of my records going back to the mid-1990s shows this to be the largest flock of Straw-necked Ibis I’ve recorded in West Belconnen.
John Layton
Holt.
