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First day of our four or five day trip out to Western Victoria to stay in country motels and journey along the silo art — look it up, I can thoroughly recommend it. Unfortunately we forgot to pack “the bird book” or the little binoculars, two items that normally get tossed in the car whenever we're going away. We'll have to rely on memory, knowledge, and looking birds up when we get home!
I went out for a short ride in Horsham to orient myself and keep up my daily ride challenge; around some industrial streets, some housing estates to a small lake, then across along along the Wimmera river. Nothing much to see until I got to the water then a mix of mostly familiar birds. Coots[1], Swamphens[2], Black ducks[3] and Wood ducks[4], then a couple of pelican[5] cruising along and looking large. In the trees alongside the river four or five Blue-faced honeyeaters[6] squabbled over some blossom, the first obviously different birds from home — the only other place I've seen them is up at Echuca along the Murray.
A family walk a little later, just on sunset and a surprise spotting, looking up in the branches by the BMX pump track there were three roosting Tawny frogmouths[6], common most places, but often nearly impossible to see due to their camoflage and nocturnal habits
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_coot
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_swamphen
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_black_duck
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_wood_duck
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_pelican
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-faced_honeyeater
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawny_frogmouth
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