birding-aus banyule bittern

[Brian Fleming <>]

Dear Tim, 
Re picture of Bittern on notice at Banyule Swamp, Heidelberg, Vic. - Cam
Beardsell certainly flushed one a few years ago, when surveying area for
NEROC conservation study (possibly still available from Nillumbik
Council, on CD disk).
He did so by wading right across the middle, which I wouldn't because of
disturbance to birds and snakes, and I dont possess waders. Perhaps a
professional survey, now and then, does excuse him.
It is certainly much better habitat than the lake or pond in Kalparrin
Gardens near Greensborough Shopping Centre, where one was seen by
Council staff earlier this year - trying to hide in a minute and
inadequate clump of reeds or Typha. Someone photographed it I believe.
Anthea Fleming in Ivanhoe
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