James Nicholls arranged for excellent weather for this walk through the gardens: a break in the heavy rain of the previous week. About 18 people attended. We started off going up the rainforest gully, in which the stream was gushing. We watched, with considerable difficulty, though we clearly heard, one or maybe two Brown Gerygones, but there was not much else there. Then into the woodland, where the best was a pair of very obliging Rose Robins. A female, and later a male, Common Bronzewing were also very obliging. Two Crescent Honeyeaters were discreet in showing themselves and Bassian Thrush eluded us. Other than that it was a modest bird total of the usual things there. The highlight was that James was able to tell all the Peyton Place (or is it Home and Away - I've not seen either series) details of the private lives, history, partners and territories of each of the White-browed Scrub-wrens in the garden. The banding of the birds there adds greatly to the birding enjoyment, interest and knowledge of this important site.
Philip Veerman