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These smaller swamps are lush and birds are breeding. Brolgas, Hoary-headed Grebes, Black Swan, BTNativehen, LGrassbirds,Red-kneed Dotts, Shoveler, Black Duck, Grey Teal, Black-winged Stilt, Masked Lapwing, etc… Swamp Harriers are the regular harrier…instead of Spotted in normal years which are very scarce this year.
Absent are Whiskered Terns, Sharp-tailed Sandpipers( except a few at Fosters swamp near Kerang), Glossy Ibis, not many crakes/blue-billed musk duck < present are plumed whistling duck wnecked heron more than usual< but generally bird numbers are down the summer should see the lakes get really interesting lake leaghur_ lake yando_lake boort_sandhill lake_lake bael bael_the marshes_tragowel swamp_the marshes around dingee_and the bendigo creek_lake tutchewop_lake lalbert_lake boga_all have water and will be worth visiting down the track cheers simon starr ============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au
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