G'day Birders, this morning while walking back from dropping my kids at
school I saw a small brown bird in the undergrowth at Darks Common,
Lapstone. I tried to turn it into a white-browed scrubwren (as I would have
expected here) but failed dismally. I ended up getting a fantastic view of a
pair or Chestnut-rumped Heathwrens flitting around about 2 - 3 m from me.
This I was not expecting. I have never seen a Heathwren here before and to
put it into perspective, I used to walk to school through the same patch of
bush. And yes, I would have noticed, I started birding in 5th class.
The really amazing thing is that this was my bogey bird for about 15 years,
and now it turns up less than 1 km from home. It will be interesting to see
if they hang around as I wouldn't call it prime heathwren habitat as the
understorey isn't as thick as where I expect to see them (usually further up
the mountains).
Cheers
Graham Turner
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