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An afternoon family outing today took us by bike a few suburbs to the south-east then south to "The Grange reserve" — a park near the site of a 1969 UFO sighting. There's a UFO-themed playground and a few plaques of information, and we'd visited once a few months ago. There is also a patch of remnant bushland fenced off and kept as a nature reserve with overhanging 2.5m fencing and interlocking gates to protect the wildlife. It was a fairly cold afternoon, hardly surprising for the winter solstice, so not really conducive to a leisurely exploration, but we managed to cover most of the walking trails through the three different types of scrub in there. Fascinating to think that it was what much of the south-eastern suburbs were like prior to being cleared for housing. Thick paperbark scrub, not a lot of wildlife to be seen or heard. On the southern boundary the eucalypts from the golf course were in flower, as were some of the wattles & coreas in the reserve. In the southern-most part and back around the western side we started to see a few New-holland honeyeaters[1] and other smaller unidentifiable birds flitting through the gum trees, then one large round Common bronzewing[2] sitting quietly on a dead branch, silhouetted against the sky and watching us walk past.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland_honeyeater
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing
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