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Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan

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On the first trip in 2012 we used public transport to get there and the train conveniently gets you to Macarthur Square shopping centre and you can then get a bus that drops you right at the entrance to the park. The park is the largest botanic garden in Australia and access is free. Satin Bowerbird -female. Satin Bowerbird bower.

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Perth Hills National Parks

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Around the picnic area at the weir the Galahs were busy on the ground feeding and the ground was also littered with the tips of the trees. It was completed in 1903 and it delivers water to the Goldfields area of Western Australia via a pipe that is over five hundred kilometres/three hundred miles long.

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Ferntree Gully-Dandenong Ranges National Park

10,000 Birds

Last Sunday Grant was able to leave work in the afternoon and I had researched options of places we could get to within one hour of the city of Melbourne using public transport that would offer us some birding opportunities. Birding Australia Australian birds Melbourne parrots treecreeper'

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Sassafras Gully Loop

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We searched for walks that started and ended near public transport, as we were going to get a ticket- MyMulti 3 -that would let us travel wide and far unrestricted each week. Ferns were prominent and it was very easy to walk quietly due to all of the damp leaf litter. The gully was really quite steep in places. In the gully!

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