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Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs - Eastside

To: Alan McBride <>
Subject: Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs - Eastside
From: bob gosford <>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:22:08 +0930
that'll do me Alan!

On 30 August 2010 18:18, Alan McBride <> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
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> I think I'd prefer "a rash of Spotted Harriers" ;-)
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> On 30/08/2010, at 18:46 , bob gosford wrote:
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> After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a lot of
> Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp Harriers
> near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice Springs last
> Friday I'd just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single Spotted
> Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice Springs
> this morning.
>
> Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral - and recent sightings give me a
> reasonable degree of certainty - which I hope to confirm over the next few
> days.
>
> Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
>
> And I'll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed Cuckoo
> reports in Alice Springs - or Darwin, Katherine and points in between -
> over
> the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus earlier today
> of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
>
> Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre...
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