Our walk started at 9am almost at the gates of Yarralumla with eight members. Our route was down the bike path and over the Warrina Inlet bridge towards Weston Park. We swung along the lakeshore behind the nursery and returned the same way, concluding with a few of us taking a brief foray into the pines to find a Grey Butcherbird.
In total we scored 42 species including very good views of some green Satin Bowerbirds (as we saw them, could they be considered "spotted bowerbirds"?). We heard an Eastern Yellow Robin, had excellent close up views of Gang-gangs feeding in a hawthorn, three Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos flew past during the Butcherbird hunt; and Double-barred and Red-browed Finches and European Goldfinches were evident behind the nursery.
The weather was fine and the trees shady thus mitigating the warmth. But we did get our shoes (OK the soles of our shoes) wet (OK damp) so cannot really be considered unadventurous.
— Martin Butterield