A Ring Ouzel had been found yesterday in some horse paddocks below the
dam at Thornton Reservoir and had been reported again today. I was scheduled to pick my youngest
granddaughter up from an after-school activity and decided to go and try and
see the Ring Ouzel before doing so.
I parked in the public car park and walked almost the length of the dam
before reaching the area overlooking the horse paddocks. As I approached the area I could see two
birds in the smaller paddock, one being a Mistle Thrush and the other either
the Ring Ouzel or a Common Blackbird. I
stopped and raised the bins and was able to confirm that it was the ouzel but
as I walked further along to join two otter birders it flew and circled before
landing on the fence briefly and then disappearing into the hedge at the back
of the larger paddock. We then saw it on
several occasions on the edge of the larger paddock, where it was chased by a
Common Blackbird, but quickly emerged again.
A couple of youths on motor bikes then went down the road and one of the
bikes backfired, which flushed everything in the paddocks and it was some time
before the ouzel showed again but then it was seen rather well.
I saw a single Sand Martin as I walked along the footpath and a Blackcap
could be heard singing whilst looking over the paddocks.
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