Hi all,
I went for a quick (800km) dash into Victoria to see if I could find the
elusive mallee Emu wren in Hattah-Kulkyne National park. After looking for
quite a while, I heard them calling from within a spinifex bush just under
8kms up the Old Calder Highway, right next to the road (S 34.42'58.4 E
142.16'57.0) I then spotted a female escaping to another bush. I stopped and
listened to her buzzing for a while before I realised there were several
other birds around me and managed to get a decent look at a female on the
ground and a male near the bottom of a small bush. I hung around for about
20 minutes before they vanished and I got a fleeting view of another one as
I walked back to the car.
Some of the other highlights of the trip were Male and Female Hooded and Red
Capped Robins in the Mallee and a magnificent dusk at Lake Hattah which
included Pacific Heron, Black Swan, Shovellers, Restless Flycatcher, Emu,
lots of Red Rumped Parrots, Sulphur Crested Cockatoos and Regent Parrots as
well.
Nick Talbot
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