Melbourne Adventures

 I read that a Barking Owl was findable in the Park around Werribee Mansion, which lurks behind the Zoo off the M1.  So we took ourselves there, with a little Satnav amusement due to a recent update to my iPhone and possibly a connectivity issue.  Buried in the Parks webpage is a warning about road works on the nearby K road, which I unfortunately didn't see.  Even by the low standards of Roads Victoria and its useless contractors this was a shambles.   It did give us a good look at the surprising amount of horticulture in the area! I went armed with a copy of this page from the Parks Visitor Guide on my phone expecting to get an easier to read hard copy on site. So we saw signs to a Parks Victoria office and I climbed 3 floors of stairs to get there.  No public access: it is the admin facility.  The public (aka scum) access is in the front of the Mansion.  So I go there, and the map is A5 with half the detail of the online one.  I asked...

 The aim of this was to have a post about the House Crow that has taken up residence in Clarendon St , South Melbourne.  This smap (sic) shows where sightings have been made to eBird. Unfortunately I couldn't spot the bird (it was probably sitting in a nest it a well foliaged tree).  But I did see some excellent art.  This was in a lane off Coventry St, towards Kingsway: the building is a restuarant. The next three are all in a lane parallel to Clarendon St, between Coventry and York Sts. Having got better particulars on where the Crow was lurking I returned the next day.  One extra artwork was found. I then assumed my common position (sitting in a gutter) when I spotted the nest in a leafy tree. I shifted one door down to dining table and had a better  view of the nest. Eventually a Little Raven flew to the nest and a two-toned Jackdaw rose and departed.  Good enough for me to count as a House Crow, my 503rd tick for Australia. A Little Raven flew ove...