2020/1029/1700 — Glen Iris wetlands

Glen Iris wetlands on my daily ride again, a pair of what might be swift parrots[1] up in a flowering gum tree, didn't look or sound quite right to be rainbow lorikeets but were the right sort of shape. Don't think they were red-rumps and definitely not rosellas -- but checking later and they should be migrated to Tassie by now. They flew off north very quickly, and their call which was what originally attracted me sounded unusual. So what were they?

Then three or four clutches of black fluffballs -- dusky moorhen[2] chicks peep-peep-peeping around with parents -- at various parts of the ponds. A single eastern rosella[3] almost at ground level in some ti-tree, just after I'd stood around talking with an older couple of birdwatchers -- and lizard watchers, they'd got a few photos of the water dragons on the rocks around the creek

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

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

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

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