> Will be doing some walking on the weekend around Ormiston, so
> I'll be on the
> lookout for Grey Honey Eaters and the Spinifexbird. I noted
> that someone had
> difficulty finding spinifex pigeons up here recently.
>
> A dead cert. (sic) place is on the Ormiston Pound walk.
> Ascend the first
> ridge from the road, top the ridge and walk up a long gully
> towards a saddle
> (providing you're travelling clockwise around the walk, not
> thru the Gorge
> first). A flock of very bold spinifex pigeons lives here, and
> they pose
> willingly for photographs.
Is this correct? We did something I have been calling "The Pound Walk"
in 1995. My memory is that we went anticlockwise and finished by coming
through the Gorge. I would have thought clockwise would mean going
through the Gorge first. According to
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/pdf/westmcdonnell_ormiston_gorge.p
df there's a shorter walk called The Ghost Gum Walk - do you mean that
one?
I wish I'd been a birder then. All I remember about the pigeons is that
there were several sizes! I also wish I'd been wearing good walking
boots - we walked over a long stretch (several kilometres?) of large
round pebbles, about 10cm in diameter, and it was very uncomfortable in
soft soled shoes.
Peter Shute
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