On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:43:00AM +1000, Lawrie Conole wrote:
> A small aside ...
>
> Yesterday whilst visiting the Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne (a few
> hundred metres east of the CBD), I heard a Brown Thornbill warbling away
> in a scungy looking pinoak in an even scungier, un-scrubby garden. This
> was in Grey Street, between the hospitals.
>
> Hardly big time range extension!! - but it would be the closest I've
> seen Brown Thornbill to the CBD - and I'm curious to know if the regular
> CBD workers know of others, eg. Fitzroy Gardens?? I presume they must
> be there ....
Hi,
They seem to be fairly common in the Botanic Gardens. Many there
at the moment. I recall someone seeing them near Fed Square sometime
last year.
Vin.
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