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Vagrant-Isabelline Wheatear- Mt Carbine

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Subject: Vagrant-Isabelline Wheatear- Mt Carbine
From: "Tony Palliser" <>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:30:14 +1100
Mark,
Not sure who spotted this bird first, but WOW! this was one magnificent find
and a most impressive piece of birding. Given the habitat and location most
birders (myself included) would have probably overlooked it as some small
unidentified brown job.

The good news is that thanks to the QANTAS frequent flyer program I managed
to get up and see the bird myself (along with Mike Carter) yesterday.  Here
is a link to a picture of it for those that might be interested.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/palliser/wheatear.htm

Again a most impressive find - thanks for letting us know.
Tony




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Jagusch
Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2002 8:43 PM
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Subject: Vagrant-Isabelline Wheatear- Mt Carbine


A vagrant that has all the hallmarks of this bird has been sighted
friday15th of nov and saturday16th nov.in Mt Carbine, North Queensland. This
is in a sports field 100 metres past the Mt Carbine hotel on the left hand
side as going up the road north. At least 6 observers saw the bird friday
and saturday am and a futher 4 of us from the area -Del Richards, Carole
Isles from Kingfisher Park,John Crowhurst and myself  spent 30mins+
observing it from a reasonably close distance using scopes and catching all
the fieldmarks as shown in European and Japanese field guides. Hopefully it
will stay in the area for a time and if any observers are in the area they
may care to contact one of us for futher details   Mark Jagusch

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