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G'day,
Thought it worth letting you all know that Hird's swamp
near Cohuna in Northern Victoria has just been topped up with "environmental
flows" and is now just about full.I recommend it as a place well worth a full
day.Better still camp overnight and enjoy the cacophony of frogs which reaches
deafening proportions! I spent a couple of hours there last night.The Sea-Eagles
were surveying their domain as per usual.As dusk approaches many Ibis arrived
from surrounding farmland to roost and as if on queue a pair of Brolgas glided
in across the deep orange light of dusk.
Bitterns,Crakes and Brown Quail are all lurking and there
were reports of Painted Snipe this winter so it seems that some have seen it
through here. Bring some gumboots and wade the edges through the
lignum.
You can't beat it!!!.
Regards Simon Starr
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