The Wanganella swamp, about 40 km north of Deniliquin, NSW, just keeps on giving. Today there was a pair of Australian painted snipe the first I have seen at that locality for decades. Also, about half a dozen Latham¹s snipe were seen, dozens of pairs of black-winged stilts and quite a few red-kneed dotterels are nesting, as are half a dozen pairs of royal spoonbills. A pair of brolgas that nested at the swamp has two young, which are now about two weeks old. Many thousands of pairs of straw-necked ibis have formed a rookery and an Australasian bittern was heard calling on Saturday. The powers that be¹ are making a concerted effort to maintain water levels in the swamp so these breeding events should be successful.
Regards
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