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2020/1128/1800 — Coastal

Our first escape to the coast since July, but only for a day and a half. Drove from Melbourne down to Lorne after morning activities and I got out at Freshwater Creek and rode the rest of the way to Lorne alongside constant roaring traffic and in gentle intermittent rain. Currawongs[1] called in the forests at various places, that's more like it, I always associate them with cold and misty forests and not the urban environment that they've moved into. So many other birds once I got to the house; a King parrot[2] that looked to have a run-in with a predator & had some feathers missing, appeared on the balcony looking for a feed, Lorne's endless Sulphur-crested cockies[3] screeched overhead, New-holland honeyeaters[4] and Red wattlebirds[5] in the bottlebrush, then a battle for supremacy as four Yellow-tailed black cockatoo[6] arrived to attack the flowers and seed pods. Meanwhile swallows[7] swooped constantly overhead chasing insects in the humid post-rain air.

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

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

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

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

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

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-tailed_black_cockatoo

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_swallow

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