Any women in Darwin on October 9th are welcome to join the Women's Network
at the Leanyer Sewage Ponds. Cocktail dress is mandatory, and gumboots.
Contact me for further details.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 3460 NT 0832
Ph. 61 08 89 328306
Birdwatching and Indigenous tourism consultant
PhD Candidate
http:// www.denisegoodfellow.com
http://web.mac.com/goodfellowdl
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on 30/9/08 2:35 PM, Frank O'Connor at wrote:
>
> The following has been reported by Niven McRie at the sewage ponds in
> Darwin. Note that access is restricted so you would need to contact the
> local birders,
>
>> A Eurasian Little Grebe has turned up at Leanyer Sewage Works, 9 years and
>> 2 days after the first one was seen.
>> It's easy to pick out when you're looking at all the grebes - it has a
>> fully red neck with only a narrow dark line down the back of the neck, red
>> cheeks, a dark crown, red eye instead of yellow like the Australasian
>> ones, and a pale patch between the eye and the bill, possibly more whitish
>> than on Australasian. If seen in flight it shouldn't show white in the
>> wings. Though flight views so far haven't been particularly good, it
>> looked to have brown wings, with white underwing lining. It was in the
>> pond to the right of the central north-south track (the one with the large
>> structure at the near corner). Given that most of the grebes are still in
>> winter plumage it stands out quite well as a red-neck, or from a distance
>> as a dark neck.
>> The Long-toed Stint is still there, along with Oriental Plover and now
>> four Little Ringed Plovers.
>> Niven
>
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