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Dear birding-aussers
Took a moment midday yesterday to have a look at
the flooded wetlands and rivers around Gloucester.The Avon River (east side of
the town) is well over its banks and creating extra creeks across the paddocks
(I can hear it from my back deck) and the whole wetlands area, which was
dry as a bone only a few months ago, is overflowing, lush and scattered with
ducks (Hardheads, Black and Grey Teal), a few egrets (Cattle, Great and
Intermediate), one Royal Spoonbill, 4 White Ibis and uncountable numbers of
Straw-necked Ibis.
On the other side of town, on Gloucester River, a
pair of adult White-bellied Sea-eagles were preening at the top of an ancient
podocarpus tree. This river isn't running as high as the Avon and all the local
birds were enjoying a brief amount of sunshine - Figbirds, Orioles,
Shining-bronze Cuckoos and a flock of Little Ravens calling, Yellow
and Yellow-rumped Thornbills and Grey Fantails busily foraging after the
insects brought out by the warmth of the sun. And then it rained again as it is
now Thursday morning.
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