3.4.26
JC Trotter
Mr P came to my place and we were on site by 6.15. Virtually my first expedition in two weeks - thanks very much Netanyahu and Trump you fuckwits.
We walked the track including the House Circuit and had what has become a bit of an expected norm at this location – bird waves with ‘dead’ gaps between. There is an obvious symbiotic relationship going on here.
Notably a plethora of Rufous Whistlers, a cornupia of Spangled Drongos interspersed with flicking Striated Pardalotes, several leering Lewin’s Honeyeaters, horny Yellow-faced Honeyeaters and dominant Grey Shrike Thrushes. We saw a few Common Bronzewings, a heap of Bar-shouldered Doves but only heard 1 Peaceful Dove. A single Little Corella high overhead and, later, a single plaintively calling Long-billed Corella flew by. Only 1 White-bellied Sea Eagle, perched up, in the raptor stakes and not a lot else of excitement on the bird front – the water itself was very quiet.
Butterflys – Orange Ringlet Hypocysta adiante (3), Common Crow Euploea core (1) and a Yellow-spotted Blue Candalides xanthospilos that was only my second record at this site.
I did ‘get’ a few new plants - Carolina Water Hyssop Bacopa caroliniana, Colombian Waxweed Cuphea carthagenensis, Creeping DentelaDentella repens, Eggs & Bacon Dillwynia retorta and identified the Grasstrees that have been there for ever as Johnson's or Forest GrasstreeXanthorrhoea johnsonii but in the main, the photos were so ‘average, verging on poor’, I thought I’d spare anyone looking at them.
Mackers for breakfast afterwards as a handy-not-too-far-to-drive location.
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