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My afternoon ride, sunny & still, the air absolutely thick with small insects. Riding along keeping mouth shut, glad of my sunglasses, feeling them catch on my arms and legs and hopefully not down the front of my shirt. Downstream along the Gardiners Creek trail there's a flock of 20-30 Crested pigeons[1] at the crested pigeon spot near Warrigal road. The usual mass of Noisy miners[2] & Rainbow lorikeets[3] making noise on the ride down Ferndale track. Lots of magpies[4] on the grass foraging for insects. A lap of the Glen Iris wetlands more out of habit than interest, pause at the bird hide that I never seem to see any birds from and there is ... a single Black duck[5] and a single Dusky moorhen[6]. I turn away and suddenly turn back, there right in front of me on a reed island is a Nankeen night heron[7], unusually out in the open rather than hidden in the reeds! It's standing completely still so I'd half missed it at first. Riding off and around to the next boardwalk I look back and there it is again, sitting out exposed for all to see.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_pigeon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_miner
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_lorikeet
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_black_duck
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky_moorhen
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankeen_night-heron
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