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Federation Walk on the Gold Coast

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Subject: Federation Walk on the Gold Coast
From: "Paul Coddington" <>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 05:29:21 +0000
I was on the sunny Gold Coast earlier this month for a few days for a workshop.
There was plenty of "liquid sunshine" (as they say in Scotland) - over 250mm
of rain while I was there, and I think I saw the sun for a total of about an hour. The tourists who had flown in from overseas for a week's vacation must have been
none too happy.

The only free time I had was in the mornings before the workshop, but since the sun came up at 4:40am(!!) that allowed me an hour or two on the couple of mornings that it wasn't raining too heavily. I was staying at the Seaworld Nara hotel, and the guide to the resort mentioned a Federation Walk nearby. I asked a few hotel staff where it was, but none of them had even heard of it. Turned out it was just across the
road, running along a narrow strip of land between the road and the beach.
A lot of it seemed to have been recently burned out, it was a bit windy and raining some of the time, but I still managed to see 36 species, all fairly common for
the east coast but nice to see when you're from Adelaide.

Best birds were a close view of a Pheasant Coucal in a dead tree (a lifer for me - very impressive birds!), male Red-winged Fairy-wren (also saw Superb Fairy-wrens), a few male and one female Satin Flycatcher, many Common Terns, close view of a Brahminy Kite perched on a sign by the beach, Tawny Grassbird, Double-barred Finch, Rainbow Bee-eater, and a few Bar-tailed Godwits. Also saw some brown shearwaters, too far away for me to ID.


Paul Coddington
Adelaide, South Australia


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