G'day all
One Spotless Crake at Floating Islands Reserve on Saturday 10th Feb. This is a
few km west of Colac on the Princes Highway in western Victoria. I saw my first
a couple of weeks ago at Belmont Common after being told where to go and which
way to look so this one I found myself was a pleasant suprise. For those who
know the reserve I saw the bird from the lookout above the lake and it was on a
tiny patch of mud on the eastern shore.
Coincidently, my father saw one at Yan Yean reservoir (north of Melbourne) on
Friday. I don't know the details but apparently you can see all three Victorian
crakes there at the moment. Dad managed the Spotless and several Australian
Crakes.
Cheers
Steve
*********************************************************
Steve Clark
Hamilton, Victoria, 3300
HTTP://www.ansonic.com.au/clarks/sw_birds.htm
*********************************************************
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to
|
