Yesterday my wife emailed me a video clip of an intense rain shower falling in Belmont, complete with marble sized hail. I have been driving a slightly different way home from work recently just to break up the monotony. Yesterday noticed a couple of unusual birds, not long after the rain had passed.
The first sighting was at 18:12 when an Australian Brush-turkey, ran across the road in front of my car. I was travelling on Rhonnda road Teralba, just east of the quarry at the time. A few minutes later I observed a pair of White-headed pigeons feeding on a grassed area under a huge camphor laurel tree. This was in the suburban area of Teralba, just east of the intersection between Rhonnda road and Railway street. Of course, as soon as I stopped the birds took off, so I have no photographic evidence.
It's not unusual to see either of these species, just unexpected as I typically associate both species with wet sclerophyll or littoral rainforest, neither of which I have seen in this area. It would be worth going for a walk through the bushland around Teralba soon. Never know what might turn up !
I entered both sightings into the Atlas of Living Australia.
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