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Out for an afternoon ride around a fairly familiar route with familiar sites and sounds. There are the Noisy miners[1] hidden in the bushes calling, the Rainbow lorikeets[2] in the treetops shrieking to each other. Around to the Glen Iris wetlands and one of the ponds has at least a dozen large fuzzball Dusky moorhen chicks[3] wading and swimming around with pairs of parents, almost grown out of their down and into their feathers... but not quite. A Willy wagtail[4] just about lands on my head, I'm not sure if its curious, trying to catch insects near me, or trying to chase me away. I'd almost leave it at that but then I met another couple of people walking around they showed me a nest, almost alongside the path I ride along several times a week. Three very large and gangly White-faced heron[5] chicks half feathered and half still down covered, overhang and overfill the nest, looking a lot like teenagers that need to move out of home. Surprisingly quiet too, we stand and watch for a few minutes and they only grumble to themselves, not like the nest in Caulfield on [2020-10-25 Sat][6].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_miner
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky_moorhen
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_wagtail
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-faced_heron
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