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Whistling Ducks

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Subject: Whistling Ducks
From: Jill Dening <>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:04:58 +1000
Sorry everyone about the repeat posting below. I forgot and used the wrong sending email address.

Thanks to those who sent me their opinions. It seems that whistling ducks are on the increase around our area.

Cheers,

Jill
Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

26° 51' 41"S	152° 56' 00"E


Jill Dening wrote:
Hi All,

I'm posting to get some local reaction from my area, the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. I live in the Glasshouse Mountains area, and have lived in this house for 13 years. I became a birder back in 1985 whilst on an extended holiday in Europe, and for the first time in my life had time to smell the roses. I have lived on the Sunshine Coast for 21 years.

When I was first a birder, whistling ducks of both species were a bit of an excitement, and certainly not commonplace. In fact I would venture to call them uncommon then around here. In those days I was a gung-ho birder, out there looking for birds at every opportunity. However, in the few past years they have become rather commonplace, or so it seems to me. We have a roofless courtyard in the middle of our house, and most summer evenings as we eat our dinner under the stars, we hear Plumed Whistling Ducks (I am pretty sure Plumed, though it is dark when we eat) flying over the house. In winter our morning walk is always taken when it is still dark, and then we also usually either see or hear Plumed Whistling Ducks. They really do move around a lot in the dark.

Is this the case all over the region, or do we happen to live under a whistling duck flight path?

Cheers,

Jill


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Jill Dening
PO Box 362
10 Piat Place
Beerwah Qld 4519
Australia 
26° 51' 41"S	152° 56' 00"E
07 5494 0994
0419 714405

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