Making use of my Tuesday afternoon off, I opted out of study instead heading to Warriewood Wetlands on Sydney's Northern Beaches to twitch a pair of Australian Painted Snipe that had been first sighted two days previously.
The site was little more than a temporary wetland on the edge of a construction site and it took me almost half an hour to eventually locate the pair, hanging around on the south-western edge of the wetland. They were only viewable from a point north of the wetland where I could look over the man-proof fence surrounding the construction site.
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| Pair of Australian Painted Snipe - the bird on the right can be seen displaying it's defensive wing spread behaviour towards the nearby Australian White Ibis. |
Not much else around; Little Grassbird calling, Intermediate Egret and Hardhead. Over at Irrawong I got decent views of Superb Lyrebird, Rufous Fantail and Oriental Dollarbird.
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| Little Pied Cormorant - attempting some basic digi-scoping |
Below are a couple of shots from last weekend during my failed Grass Owl/Aus. Bittern twitch at Hexham Swamp.
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| Large flock of Pacific Golden Plover and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper put up by an Australian Hobby |
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| Disused railway near the supposed bittern pond |
Making use of my Tuesday afternoon off, I opted out of study instead heading to Warriewood Wetlands on Sydney's Northern Beaches to twitch a pair of Australian Painted Snipe that had been first sighted two days previously.
The site was little more than a temporary wetland on the edge of a construction site and it took me almost half an hour to eventually locate the pair, hanging around on the south-western edge of the wetland. They were only viewable from a point north of the wetland where I could look over the man-proof fence surrounding the construction site.
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| Pair of Australian Painted Snipe - the bird on the right can be seen displaying it's defensive wing spread behaviour towards the nearby Australian White Ibis. |
Not much else around; Little Grassbird calling, Intermediate Egret and Hardhead. Over at Irrawong I got decent views of Superb Lyrebird, Rufous Fantail and Oriental Dollarbird.
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| Little Pied Cormorant - attempting some basic digi-scoping |
Below are a couple of shots from last weekend during my failed Grass Owl/Aus. Bittern twitch at Hexham Swamp.
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| Large flock of Pacific Golden Plover and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper put up by an Australian Hobby |
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| Disused railway near the supposed bittern pond |
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