Dear All
Having just returned to the mother country I would like to publicly
acknowledge my thanks via the list to all those who helped to make my first
( and definitely not last) birding trip to Oz so memorable and , birdwise ,
so profitable .
Firstly to Carol Probets who was so generous in helping me plan my first leg
in the capertee valley....I searched high and low for those regents but
sadly in vain ...perhaps just a little too early .
To Peter Waanders with whom I journeyed into the interior from Adelaide to
the Flinders Ranges and southern Strzelecki track ....a great trip on which
we recorded , amongst others , banded stilt , slender-billed thornbill ,
chestnut-breasted whiteface , short-tailed , thick-billed and eyrean
grasswrens , cinnamon quail-thrush , ground cuckooshrike, gibberbird,
elegant parrot and square-tailed kite as highlights.
To Simon Starr for an outstanding Mallee trip in NW Vic. with highlights
being swift parrot , black-chinned honeyeater, chestnut quail thrush ,
regent parrot , mallee emuwren , striated grasswren , pink cockatoo ,
spotted harrier and black-eared cuckoo .
( by the way I totally recommend both Peter and Simon as birding guides in
their respective patches )...
....and last , but not least , to Richard Nowotny for his very generous
hospitality in Melbourne ( sorry about disrupting your friday night footy
match ) and his beautifully choreographed saturday morning birding tour to
Werribee where we scored an outstanding 13 out of a possible list of 18 or
so potential lifers for me including blue-winged parrot and freckled duck
and finally red-necked phalarope ...one of my biggest bogey birds !.....see
you soon Richard .
Perhaps my most interesting record of all my birding sorties on this trip
was an adult banded honeyeater in uluru resort on 30th July ....I realised
afterwards on reading the field guide how out of range this record is and
later from the atlas how few records there are of this species so far
south....however this is an easy bird to identify , even for a visitor , and
I am in no doubt about its identity .
Once more many thanks to one and all for a great trip and many fond memories
..
Mike
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