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FW: Royal Spoonbills

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Subject: FW: Royal Spoonbills
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 00:15:39 +0000

Once again Shorty showed he knows how to be in the right place at the right time.  It was such a calm, mildly sunlit Sunday afternoon I accepted his tip and went there for a few minutes.  At that time the spoonbills had decided to doze off, with heads of only a small number just visible above the reeds as sub-tenants of the ibis at Dead-Tree Roost (east).  Tenants at Dead-Tree Roost (west) included at least 17 Little Black Cormorants, with more of them on the water, at least 25 altogether. I didn’t progress much further but found a Fuscous Honeyeater (non-breeding condition) plunge-bathing in front of Cygnus.  A snap from Dairy Road of a small section of  the Forbidden Ponds showed, when subject to a later count, 24 pink-ears, 4 black swans, 6 grey teal, 23 shovelers,  3 silver gulls, 4 coot, 2 hardheads, 3 black duck, 7 unidentified waterbirds.

 

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From: Canberrabirds <> On Behalf Of shorty via Canberrabirds
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:22 PM
To: Canberra birds <>
Subject: [Canberrabirds] Royal Spoonbills

 

Hi all,

 

I stopped into Jerra Wetlands just to take a look at the Southern end of Kelly's and there were 12 juveniles and when I left there were 15. Highest count I have of them in Canberra.

 

Short

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