On a bright clear day, 12 members led by Roger Curnow and Joe Barr, started from the Jarramlee Homestead Road accompanied by a large number of bush flies but could complete only half of a too ambitious planned walk around the Dunlop Grasslands. Starting from the recently named Fassifern Pond, where a newly-hatched family of Eurasian Coots was in residence and Reed Warblers and Fairy Martins were also present, the group crossed Ginninderra Creek (Wood Duck and Water Dragon) and soon found a very noisy and very tame Rufous Songlark in a small group of trees. The dead willows contained Rainbow Bee-eaters and White-winged Trillers among other species but the Stubble Quails heard in the grass nearby could not be flushed. A small family of at least three foxes was also seen. Australian Pipits (some carrying food) and a Dusky Woodswallow were seen further along the track before a visit to the Fairy Martin nest site in an old Sewerage Pumping Station where there were clear signs of the destruction of many nests among the few remaining. None of the nests seemed active but the martins were still in the area. A few of us saw one of the local Wedge-tailed Eagles appear over the ridge for a few moments. Only a few species were seen in the next stretch of grassland before we reached the welcome shade of the tree corridor behind Macgregor where Weebills, Noisy Friarbird and Superb Wrens were seen. Recrossing the creek took us to Jarramlee Pond where a newly-hatched family of Dusky Moorhens could be seen as well as another Wood Duck, Pacific Black Duck and Grey Teal. Back along the walking track past trees containing a Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike nest with a fat baby in residence and squabbling White-plumed Honeyeaters and Red Wattlebirds. Final highlights were seen near the cars where a Horsfields Bronze-cuckoo was first heard, then seen, and an Australian Hobby and a Sacred Ibis passed close overhead. A total of 42 species seen and heard with the area across Gooroomon Creek left to be visited on a future occasion!