I wonder if I am eligible for the count, being a retired pensioner I don't
ride to work but I do cycle regularly. This morning I have been out
checking 1080 fox bait stations for The National Parks and I have ridden 37
km from home,( 6 km each way along roads, to reach the Park ) in less than
three hours, it was a lovely calm, cool morning and the birds were very
active, my list is
Common Bronzewing Crested pigeon
Aust. Ringneck (Mallee form) Blue Bonnet
Mulga Parrot Variegated Fairy Wren
Striated Grasswren Spotted Pardalote
Striated Pardalote Weebill
Chestnut -rumped Thornbill Yellow-rumped Thorbill Southern Whiteface
Red wattlebird Spiny-cheeked honeyeater Striped
Honeyeater Yellow-throated Miner Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
Brown-headed Honeyeater White-fronted Honeyeater White-eared Honeyeater
Jacky Winter Red-capped Robin
White-browed Babbler Chestnut-crowned Babbler Crested Bellbird
Gilbert's Whistler Grey Shrike-thrush
Restless Flycatcher Magpielark Grey
Fantail Willie Wagtail
Chestnut Quailthrush Grey Butcherbird Pied
Butcherbird Australian Magpie
Australian raven Little Raven
Little Crow White-winged Chough
Richard's Pipit Mistletoebird
A Malleefowl had been scratching litter into a mound next to the track but
I didn't see him as I cycled past.
We have had 11mm of rain recently and so the sand was hard and I could ride
over all of the sandhills that in the past few weeks I have had to walk
over.
Doug Holly
Monash South Aust.
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