And it empties the pockets.
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From:
On Behalf Of Chris Sanderson
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:27 PM
To: L&L Knight
Cc: Peter Marsh; birding-aus
Subject: Probable AGP at Boat Harbour
A pilot friend related an interesting story to me a while ago along
these lines. A wealthy US twitcher who had visited Australia a number
of times had missed one of our iconic birds, the Black Grasswren. He
flew from Dallas, Texas, to Sydney (via LA I'd imagine), and then hopped
on a flight to Kununurra via Darwin. My friend flew him in a light
aircraft to somewhere near the Mitchell Plateau where he was met by a
helicopter. This is all non-stop travel mind you, no stops in between.
The helicopter flew him to the top of the plateau where a guide found
him the Grasswrens within less than an hour. Upon seeing the birds, he
jumped back in the helicopter and flew all the way back to the US.
Total flying time around 3 days, less than an hour spent looking for one
species.
It boggles the mind!
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, L&L Knight
<>wrote:
> Nice concept, but possibly not in this case.
>
> An ultra-hard core twitcher will travel for a day (or two) each way
> for a twitch and may well turn around after five minutes of
> observation.
>
> Typically driving twitches involve a greater proportion of travel time
> than flying twitches. Take the case of the GHL at Burren Junction.
> It was pretty much a drive only option (one or two took a light
> airport to
> Narrabri?) with many driving 6-12 hours each way with an overnight
stop
> somewhere. Many of those twitchers would have only spent an hour or
two on
> the bird.
>
> Perhaps the most ridiculous twitch would be someone flying to a remote
> airstrip (eg Cocos Island) to try and see a bird at the site while the
> plane was refuelling ...
>
> Regards, Laurie.
>
>
>
> On 26/03/2009, at 2:21 PM, Peter Marsh wrote:
>
> Dear Birders,
>> I took Biggles from Darwin out to see the probable AGP at Boat
>> Harbour today. I picked him up from a flight in from Darwin at 6:30
>> am, took him to Kurnell, walked in and saw the bird (and all the
>> other birds on the rock
>> platform) very well, walked out and dropped him off at the airport at
10:00
>> am for his 11:00 am flight back to Darwin.
>>
>> Is this a record for the travel time divided by the length of time at
>> destination for a twitch? Very glad the tides, the weather and the
>> birds all co-operated to make it a good day for Biggles. Regards
>> Peter
>> www.birding-aus.org
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