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Oxley
After yet more rain it was a soggy morning, but bright, with warm sun and a light breeze. I stopped to buy fuel on Sherwood Rd at 2.39.5c/l which seemed to be the cheapest available within reasonable driving range from home, so was on site at 6.45.
There weren’t many non-combatants on the track, in fact I had it almost to myself, which was nice for a change.
Mind you the track was also very quiet bird-wise, I did end up with 47 species but the numbers were low. Nothing to write home about, no raptors at all, but I did find a Tawny Frogmouth drying out in the sun. The flooded field, although water still present, only had 3 Pied Stilts and 4 Black-fronted Dotterels and the total duck numbers came to 4 Pacific Black Ducks – as I said, numbers were low.
I did see a lone female deer of indeterminate species standing in the open grass on the opposite side of Sherwood Rd as I negotiated the turn off on arrival. I have the deer species on this site list as ‘Red’ Deer but am not convinced that is exactly what they are.
Butterflys – half a dozen fresh, chipper Monarchs Danaus plexippus and 1 Lesser Wanderer Danaus chrysippus. On the ‘other insect’ front just two spiders – a single Pacific Golden Weaver Nephila plumipes and, what I believe was, a Small Round Orb Weaver Araneus rotundulus.
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