Saw my first Greenshank for the spring on Saturday at Seven Mile Lagoon, in the
Lockyer Valley.
Lots of water, many hundreds of birds, a few Red-capped Plovers, only saw one
Red-necked Avocet, there is usually a group of twenty-plus there. No other
sandpipers yet. Heaps of Australian Shovelers, Pink-eared Duck and so on.
I counted 26 Banded Plovers nearby - spaced around a paddock in pairs at what
looked like nesting distances to me.
At home on Sunday, I was walking in the garden when I spotted a Horsfield's
Bronze-Cuckoo on the verandah deck. It was sitting low, head up, beak open, and
from a distance I thought it might have been a young bird, particular because
it just stayed and stayed. When I snuck into the house and got close to it from
inside.,it proved to be a well-coloured adult - maybe it had hit a window and
was in a state of recovery.
I was able to get some fairly close snaps of the cuckoo, which I've put on
www.abberton.org.holding.htm along with a few others from the weekend,
including one of the Freckled Duck which is still at Lake Apex at Gatton. It
spends a lot of time hunkered down on or close against an island, and the photo
still isn't a good one, but I'll keep trying.
Bill Jolly
"Abberton",
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
27º 34' 21" S; 152º 08' 21" E)
Visit our website at www.abberton.org
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