Chris - yes I noticed the first PC of the season - again on the wire - just
outside my house at Eastside yesterday. Haven't heard any calling yet -
perhaps a bit cool. And the swamps are very full - flew into town the other
day and they looked great!
Bob Gosford
Eastside, Alice Springs
On 15 July 2010 14:18, Christopher Watson <>wrote:
> Having returned from two idyllic weeks of birding the Friesian Islands of
> northern Holland, it was great to finally get home to The Alice where the
> weather in my absence seems to have been decidedly... Dutch. The rain has
> continued in Alice in the earlier part of the week and we even had a thick
> fog earlier in the week. The Centre is still very much underwater with many
> watercourses to the west still flowing and a bit of water still coming down
> the Todd.
>
> Ilparpa swamps are nice and full with plenty of White-faced Herons and
> Black-winged Stilts. I had two Pallid Cuckoos sitting on power lines on
> Ilparpa road just before the claypans, and a wee bit further on I had great
> views of a soaring Black-breasted Buzzard as I passed through Honeymoon
> Gap.
> Good to be home.
>
> Chris Watson
> Alice Springs
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