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Today's bike ride took me past a few sections of Gardeners creek; the first time along it all I saw was ponds and vegetation, the native clematis is fully in flower and climbing over everything, and most of the wattles are now flowering. Around and under Warrigal road and climb up to the sports oval in Ashburton, the small flock of Crested pigeons[1] that's always there on the ground was there on the ground, scratching around and feeding — I'm starting to wonder if maybe someone spreads seed there for them.
Up the Anniversary trail and down the Ferndale track to Glen Iris wetlands, a dull grey afternoon and not many birds around, there was a solitary Coot[2] and Dusky Moorhen[3] in the wetlands ponds, the council has now planted a row of native trees in where all the willows were cut down and removed a few weeks ago. Then further on heading back up Gardeners creek more moorhens and a few scattered flocks of Black duck[4]. A single White-faced heron[5] probing around in the mud on a footy ground with a Mudlark[6] doing much the same nearby.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_pigeon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_coot
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusky_moorhen
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_black_duck
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-faced_heron
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-lark
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