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Avian Conspiracy & Cosmic Birding Kharma

To: John Tongue <>, Gemfyre <>
Subject: Avian Conspiracy & Cosmic Birding Kharma
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:47:29 +0930
In 1985 Hilary Thompson and I were showing a group of visitors mangrove
birds.  But mangrove robin proved elusive.  We left our baby son Rowan
gurgling away happily in his pusher at the side of a clearing while we
hunted around.

Suddenly we heard the elusive bird nearby.  We intensified our searching.

Then one of us looked around.  There, hopping around Rowan's feet, was a
mangrove robin.  It hadn't responded at all to our calls, but rather to our
baby's happy gurgling!

Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
1/7 Songlark Street
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On 3/8/07 9:31 PM, "John Tongue" <> wrote:

> A birding friend in Hobart tells a similar story.  Like for us, the
> Owlet Nightjar has been a long time 'bogey-bird', and also like us,
> she's searched for it high and low.  One evening last year, her non-
> birding partner came in from an evening walk and casually asked her
> if there was a small bird with whiskers.  She demanded to know why,
> and wasn't impressed when he said he'd seen one on his walk!  She,
> and we, still wait and look!
>
> John & Shirley Tongue
> Ulverstone, Tas.
>
>
> On 03/08/2007, at 9:16 PM, Gemfyre wrote:
>
>> My boyfriend isn't terribly interested in birds.  He does soak up a
>> surprising amount of the information I spout to him (unfortunately
>> I can't seem to digest most of the info he gives me about various
>> sports) and even regurgitates it at times!  And he does admit to an
>> admiration of raptors.
>>
>> Anyway, he seems to be a birding good-luck-charm for me.
>> Inevitably when on holidays I will drag him to good birding spots.
>> One time at Morialta Conservation Park in Adelaide I was seeking
>> two pretty common birds, but ticks for me - the European Goldfinch
>> and the Superb Fairy-wren.  During our wander up the track an
>> Eastern Spinebill alighted on a branch directly in front of us -
>> another tick and later a pair of Goldfinches did the same, much to
>> my delight.
>>
>> The fairy-wren proved a little harder.  I could hear them calling
>> so I went stalking up a less beaten track while my long suffering
>> SO waited on the main path.  I returned about 10 minutes later,
>> having not seen a thing.  As I dejectedly headed back to the car,
>> about 50m or so on down the track my boyfriend asks, "Is that one?"
>> and points to a stunning blue fairy-wren right in the middle of the
>> track in front of him.
>>
>> Belinda
>> Narrogin



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