While I was out shopping for a new bookcase I dropped into the local Lake Wendouree which is a popular area for the population of the rat. Walking dogs, jogging, bike riding, power walking and other extreme exercise all happen here mostly around the lake while canoeing yachting and rowing are normally popular on the lake itself. now you would think that birds would go nowhere near this disturbed place but how wrong you would be, heaps of waterfowl abound as well as grebes and other wet birdy stuff Lake Wendouree is artificially kept full fine for ducks but rubbish for waders so I thought there may be a hope at Lake Learmonth. But as you can see below its just Learmonth now. Such are the vagaries of Australian birding a few months ago there were Sharp-tailed Sands and Red-necked Stint but now all I saw was three House Sparrows and two Australian Magpie. The speed limit and the stating the bleeding obvious about the lake being closed is just the thing to appeal to my sense of irony. Interestingly near the caravan park is a small stream and I met a bloke in wellies stirring the waters looking for gold. Thinking he may have escaped from his carers I humoured him until he showed me his mornings gleanings, about $300 worth of yellow stuff. Time to get me wellies on except the stream has also dried up. I still think it took him longer than a morning. So my bird today had to be the Swamp Harrier so I am still hanging in there.
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January 2018
Authorlives in the northern burbs of Ballarat, Victoria. Love birding, BBQing and sport and of course the Aussie way of life. I have a fantastic partner two dogs and two fish. Categories |