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2020/1220/1800 — to the hills

A long bike ride this afternoon -- after gardening yesterday and gardening this morning -- aching all over as a result. Off to the north-east and took myself to the foothills of the Dandenongs and off up one of the gravel tracks for a very steep diversion into the forest.

The ride out there was along the Ferny Creek traili, so the usual mix of waterbirds. Lots of magpies[1] and Red wattlebirds[2] and some wrens and finches vanishing too quickly for an ID, a small flock of White ibis[3] and black duck[4] and Purple swamphen[5] -- there we go for the birds-named-by-color. Once up into the forest I didn't see much due to watching where the path went, but there were crimson rosellas[6] down low and a noisy flock of Sulphur-crested cockatoo[7] up high, and a few Koookaburras[8] that definitely sounded as though they were laughing at me as I fell off on a sketchy bit of single track. On the way home more cockatoos, both in pairs and both digging up grass roots, first some galahs[9] and then Long-billed corellasi[10], surprisingly close and lovely coloured eye and facial feathers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_wattlebird

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_white_ibis

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_black_duck

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_swamphen

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_rosella

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur-crested_cockatoo

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_kookaburra

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galah

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-billed_corella

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