Nice to meet you Victor…4 surprised me
Denise
> On 18 Sep 2024, at 12:05 PM, Victor Braguine <>
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> I was there today to check out Nankeen Night Herons at about 11:00.
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> Spotted and photographed one hiding in the tree on the right from the island.
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> Then it took off and flew in the direction of the island followed by three
> more. The 3rd and 4th looked a bit smaller.
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>> On 17 Sep 2024, at 4:19 PM, Denise Kay via Canberrabirds
>> <> wrote:
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>> I’m pretty sure a pair of NKH’s are nesting on Giralang Pond. They may have
>> been doing this for years and I have missed it but this year I noticed they
>> had stayed on the pond when they usually depart the first week of spring .
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>> I also had a pair of White Browed Scrub wrens nesting in the large ( 40 year
>> old) maiden hair fern on my deck. They raised one batch of two and proceeded
>> to lay again a couple of weeks ago . Yesterday our resident Currawong found
>> the nest took both chicks then proceeded to demolish the nests ( I think
>> there may have been 2 ) .
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>> Behaviour of the wrens was amusing I am raising an orphan Red wattle bird
>> and one of the adults was annoyed enough by the constant chirping it came
>> into the house to complain. Then spent a minute or so in the lounge , I
>> thought it was going to clean up the spiderwebs sadly not. Flew back out and
>> continued to complain outside .
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>> On another note a pair of pelicans have visited the pond twice in the last
>> week.
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>> Denise
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