After a quick visit to the Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Works to see what
was about (two pairs of Blue-billed Ducks, including a small tiff between
the males), I drove back to Civic via Fairbairn Ave. As I passed Hopkins
Drive (locked gate on the left), I spotted what looked like a rail or
crake on the left hand side of the road. I turned the car around to have
another look, and was rewarded with seeing an adult Buff-banded Rail and
two more youngsters run from the wet drainage ditch on the side of the
road, under the fence and into the small wetland. The fence is a pipe
and steel mesh construction; the spot where I saw them is where a pipe
upright is bent sideways. These were the first Buff-banded Rails I've
seen in the ACT, so I was most pleased. :-)
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Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
I came, I saw, I ticked.
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