G'day all
Anyone planning an overseas birding trip should do lots of homework. One useful
resource I've found recently is a website dedicated to trip reports. It's
maintained by Urs Geiser in Illinois, USA. The address is:
http://matrix.crosswinds.net/~birdtrips/TripReports.html
and it has hundreds of (mainly non-USA) trip reports.
While I have your attention can anyone tell me if the birding-aus archive site
is down, broken, closed or moved. It certainly doesn't work anymore.
Cheers
Steve
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Steve Clark
45 Carmichael Street, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia 3300
ph 0355 719 048
www.ansonic.com.au/clarks/sw_birds.htm
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come out from behind a cloud, I was focused on a mossy bank casting a =
nice reflexion in the water. A Little Kingfisher flew down stream and =
landed on a tree root about 2.5 metres away on the opposite bank. =
>From this vantage point it commenced to fish the pool below totally =
oblivious of my presence. This was a very special moment for me.
This is a regular site for Little Kingfisher and well worth a visit if =
you need to add this species to your list the following day we saw the =
kingfisher again along with Fernwren and Yellow-throated Scrubwren.
A Magic spot!
Regards
Ian Clayton
Birds & Bush Tours
PO Box 6037, TMC, Townsville, Qld, Australia. 4810
Phone/Fax: 07 4721 6489
Phone/Fax International: + 61 7 4721 6489
Email:
WebPage:http:// www.ultra.net.au/~bbt
To a man ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded, so
that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly
trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Just to finish 1999 with something special, Pauline =
and
I spent three days 29th to 31st January at Paluma Village, Paluma is =
situated 80
kl north of Townsville, North Queensland, on the Paluma Range at =
about 900
metres . The main purpose of the visit apart from birding and =
relaxing was
to take photographs of rainforest scenes for a proposed =
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>On Thursday the 30th I was at the second bridge on =
the dam
road. I was crouched low on a gravel bank along the creek waiting =
for the
sun to come out from behind a cloud, I was focused on a mossy bank =
casting a
nice reflexion in the water. A <STRONG>Little =
Kingfisher</STRONG>
flew down stream and landed on a tree root about 2.5 metres away on the =
opposite
bank. From this vantage point it commenced to =
fish the
pool below totally oblivious of my presence. This was a very =
special
moment for me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>This is a regular site for Little Kingfisher and =
well worth a
visit if you need to add this species to your list the following day we =
saw the
kingfisher again along with Fernwren and Yellow-throated =
Scrubwren.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>A Magic spot!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Regards<BR> <BR>Ian =
Clayton<BR>Birds &
Bush Tours<BR>PO Box 6037, TMC, Townsville, Qld,
Australia. 4810</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Phone/Fax: 07 4721 6489<BR>Phone/Fax =
International: + 61 7 4721 6489</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>To a man ornithologists are tall, =
slender, and
bearded, so<BR>that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating =
kindly
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