It's pretty dry in the Lockyer Valley just now and Seven Mile Lagoon is
presently no more than a grazed paddock, with much livestock but close to no
birdlife, certainly no water birds - given that there's no water!
The Red-necked Avocet population has relocated to Lake Dyer, along with much
else.
Trevor & Kym Ford and Neil Bowman were here at the weekend, and headed back
to the coast via Lake Dyer yesterday (Sunday), where Trevor found a group of
four Painted Snipe. Earlier he turned up two well-plumaged Hoary-headed
Grebes in the Lockyer Waters area.
Plum-headed Finches are quite regular along local roadsides where there is
plenty of seeding grass for them.
But the creek is so low that we've got Black-fronted Dotterels nesting where
we would otherwise expect platypus. Neil was watching the parent bird
immersing herself in the creek just a few metres from the nest, then coming
back feathers laden with water to cool the eggs. A funny sort of incubation!
I'll see if I can locate the Painted Snipe this-afternoon and report back.
Bill Jolly
"Abberton",
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
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