Hello Brian your timing is impeccable! Jerrabomberra Wetlands in Canberra
(strictly speaking, Kelly's Swamp) is drying rapidly - a fortnight from now
it will be cracked dry clay.
At present, though, it is fantastic: crakes out in the open on the mud;
Latham's Snipes in significant numbers, ditto; two or three Glossy Ibis;
Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbills; one Pectoral and a few Sharp-tailed
Sandpipers; Red-kneed and Black-fronted Dotterels; lots of Freckled and
Pink-eared Ducks (many of the Freckled are on pond 4 over the road in the
sewage works). Some of these are drought escapers.
Woodland birds: Black Falcons; White-browed (breeding) and Masked
Woodswalows; and Painted HEs (breeding) at Campbell Park, along with the
usual summer migrants like W-w Trillers and Dollarbird.
For details, you may care to peruse the Canberra Birds email list at
www.topica.com/lists/canberrabirds - click on the link at the foot of the
page: 'read this list'.
Regards - David
At 11:13 15/01/2003 +1100, you wrote:
We are heading to Canberra this Friday and Saturday and I was curious if
anyone has recent experience regarding the level of water in the
Jerrabomberra Wetlands at the moment and what birds are using that spot? Is
it worth taking the scope and having a look over this place? Or just stick
to bush birds instead?
Thanks in advance
Brian Everingham
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