Re: Victorian Twitchathon 05

[Mick Roderick <>]

Just to add to David's response...I have to agree that sleep is certainly a luxury for any team aiming for 200+.

 

But also, don't forget that the NSW teams have to contend with losing an hour's sleep due to the commencement of Daylight Savings time on the Saturdee nite...a cruel blow when one looks at their clock thinking it's 2am ("not bad")...but it's actually 3am ("sigh")! Doesn't sound like much, but it hurts!

 

The 'committed' HHB team managed to get 8 nocturnal birds this year, including 2 Bittern species within 3 minutes of each other, as well as three Tyto Owls...so birding at night can also be very productive.

 

And there can be no doubt...the adrenalin is what gets you through to Sundee arvo...but being idle in the approach to 4pm is definitely a punishable offence in the Brewer camp. There's always a raptor or two that one can add to the list, etc etc.

 

Scared, David?

 

Mick

wrote:

> Tim wrote "After 3 hours sleep" and "After packing up our tents".
>
> Tim, there's your problem ...
>
> Tents??, three hours sleep?? No wonder you fell short of 200. 
>
> If you want to give your sponsors full value for their money you need to 
> ditch the tents - it's wasting valuable birding time putting them up and 
> then pulling them down!!. Try sleeping on some hard concrete or a picnic 
> table if you want a bit more luxury. Sleep simply cuts into yet more 
> valuable birding time. I will concede that you might need a hours snooze 
> at some stage (but no more!) to ensure you can tell the difference between 
> the real birds and those hallucinations. You might feel like crap later 
> but the adrenalin should get you
>  through until 4.00PM Sunday - and that's 
> all that matters! Mind you, a down side, as one of my team members found, 
> is that there may be a tendency to drop off through the proceedings at the 
> post-twitchathon BBQ.
>
> As a twitchathon veteran I've discovered that there is always room for 
> improvement. The mighty Whacked-out Woodswallows managed 229 in NSW 
> several weekends ago. Today I got a phone call from one of my team 
> members telling me she's working on some minor tweaking of our run for 
> next year so we can better our effort. I'm scared, very scared! 
>
> Cheers
>
> David Geering
> Regent Honeyeater Recovery Coordinator
> Department of Environment & Conservation
> P.O. Box 2111
> Dubbo NSW 2830
> Ph: 02 6883 5335 or Freecall 1800 621 056
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