Re: ANU birds

[Russell Woodford <>]

On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Harvey Perkins wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just got back from a cross-campus errand, and in the fifteen minutes of
> walking clocked up 29 species (including feral exotics!) which I thought
> was pretty good, particularly given that it could easily have contained a
[snip] etc....

This reminds me of a friend who grumbled about the time when he saw only
27 species over three months at work - in fact, during the whole three
months, including time off for birding!  The poor fellow was working on
Spitzbergen, north of the Arctic Circle - you know, Harlequin Duck on the
doorstep, King Eider everywhere, ho-hum ....

R Woodford
In Geelong, 
Suffering post-twitchathon lack of species on my november list