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Message: <blockquote data-quote="podargus" data-source="post: 2948111" data-attributes="member: 109359">19/02/12After a night in a Melbourne hostel, I got up early to take a train east to Belgrave. From here it is a fairly short walk up to Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges. The forest here is pretty impressive, mainly comprised of huge Mountain Ash trees with plenty of large tree ferns in the understorey.At the visitor centre there were Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Crimson Rosellas sat around waiting to be fed, and a Swamp Wallaby was grazing on the lawn. I set off along one of the forest trails and thought about how best to track down my main target for the day. Fortunately after about 5 minutes that problem was solved for me when a big male Superb Lyrebird, with his ridiculous tail, dashed across the track ahead of me B <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Over the rest of the day I had 3 more sightings of this species (all males) including some really excellent views of one digging around in the leaf litter. I was visiting outside of the breeding season, but I still got to see one lazy attempt at displaying (well, some white plumes waving around above some ferns) and hear some half-hearted, but still extremely impressive singing. It was brilliant to get to spend a bit of time watching these special birds, particularly as my view of the Albert’s Lyrebird in November was very brief.Further up into the forest I managed to track down another of my targets, with a pair of Red-browed Treecreepers working along a tree. They were very high up to start with, but eventually came low enough for me to see the distinctive red face patch. My final target, Pilotbird, never appeared, but there were a few other nice species around including Rufous Fantail and Lewin’s Honeyeater, and Yellow-tailed Cockatoos could be heard moving through the forest.All in all it was a very successful little day trip, and I headed back to Melbourne happy. That evening I got a bus to the airport for a late flight over to Launceston, Tasmania.Birds389. Superb Lyrebird390. Red-browed Treecreeper</blockquote>

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