I finally found a couple of spare hours this afternoon to see if the Green Pygmy Geese were still at Moonee, NSW. Warren Thompson, Val and I arrived at Smiths Lake just after 1500 hrs and almost instantly saw the male Goose swimming about 20 m from the shore. We couldn’t see the female at first but after about 5 minutes I spotted it a little further out than the male. I took some photos and then scanned the lake for other treats. We observed 20 Wandering Whistling-Ducks, 4 Comb-crested Jacanas, an adult male Mallard and another male duck that looked like a Mallard cross, as well as numerous Hardheads, Pacific Black Ducks, Eurasian Coot etc. The Goose was a lifer for the three of us, following on two different observations of the Cotton Pygmy-Goose on the NSW North Coast in recent years.
Greg Clancy Ecologist and Wildlife Guide Coutts Crossing NSW www.birdrangers.com ===============================
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