Monday, February 16, 2015

Bushlark emerges from sea of grass


Hard to find Horsfield's Bushlark (Mirafra javanica) and other grass inhabitants unless they take to the barbed wire above the lush growth these days of a so-far floodless wet season around Ingham.
Most years these Orient Station cattle would here be knee-deep in water in mid-February, not surrounded as today by seas of tall grass.
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