Canberra lights (mainly)

 The first image is recording a mistake by me.  When I saw lights in the trees in Glebe Park I assumed that as part of the "improvement" of the Park fairy lights had been installed in random trees.

On looking closely, after Frances had made a comment, I realised it was simply the street lights shining down on dead leaves in the trees!  So I then took a look at the true fairy lights in City Walk.  Rather insipid at this early time of day.

My birding outing was to Upper Stranger Pond.  I had been aware of this water body from other's eBird activities but never visited it.  As it is just across the road from Isabella Pond (visited several times) that is surprising.  It is also upstream from Stranger Pond: again visited several times.

The trip did not begin well with the tyre pressure warning going off in the Jetta (as it had on the drive up.  So into a parking area and change the tyre.  This revealed a screw having inserted itself into the tyre: hopefully a quick - and relatively cheap - plug job.  On down the Tuggers Parkway with the opposite lanes resembling a parking lot due to some horny sons of toil painting armco near the zoo.  Through the string of traffic lights in Tuggers (at least 8 sets, carefully linked to ensure traffic stops at each).  Decide to go home via Monaro Highway!  According to Google Earth that is 3km longer, but was far less frustrating, and owing to the armco painting had to be 10 minutes faster.

The aim of the outing was to twitch a Blue-billed duck which was duly done.  In fact there were at least 2 males present: probably more, but due to the time taken to change the tyre I didn't want to faff around.

In the evening the sunset was quite atractive.

So were the lights towards Black Mountain.

Here are the fairies of City Walk: compare with the second image above.