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Message: <blockquote data-quote="colonelboris" data-source="post: 1724487" data-attributes="member: 40117">Crikey, some day out.  Did quite a walk from Redfern train station, all round the uni, round Victoria Park, through Wentworth Park, around the Fish Market and o to Darling Habour, all through intermittent rain and with my eldest daughter for the trip.  Comparatively few Ibis about (they seem to have been in smaller numbers through the last two months), but I've still to feed the results in.One thing that was odd was my daughter pointing to an ibis in the water at the Fish Market tht looked in trouble.  It was way out of its depth and looked like it was weakly trying to stay afloat.  It would raise its head to breath in and blow bubbles out with its head under water.  There were a couple of times when it could have stood up at the edge of the water, but didn't.  It disappeared under a pier and didn't come out again.  Nothing I could do as there are fences all round the water's edge and it shelves very steeply into the bay.  Mk. 1 infant thought it was just swimming around to get some fish and I didn't feel the need to disabuse her of that opinion...</blockquote>