10.7.25
Oxley
On site at 7.30, a dull cloudy morning to start with that quickly brightened to a warmer, sunny morning. The track was very busy with Lewin’sand Blue-faced Honeyeaters in number in a minimum few trees with the remains of flowers. Nothing exceptional, but not a bad morning with 48 species recorded.
Met a pair of genuine birders who knew what they were talking about, but also passed a couple of groups of retirees who had spent their retirement funds on flash cameras and huge lenses, but not one of them had invested in a pair of bins.
I didn’t climb the fence and walk to the flooded field as there were several cattle just inside the gate and I didn’t want to disturb them, but from the platform near the carpark I did see a few White-headed Stilts and a Black-fronted Dotterel that was flushed as I scanned.
Messed around with the (new) camera in a variety of situations, checking its performance and trying to understand what was happening..... I was reasonably happy I had finally got it to do what I wanted it to do. Only 1 photograph was, in my opinion, worth keeping..
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