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> From: Peter Shute <>
> Date: 27 February 2015 3:29:57 am AWST
> To: Patrick Scully <>
> Cc: "" <>
> Subject: Re: Red eared Firetail at Cheynes Beach
>
> You've sent this to the wrong address, Patrick. The list address is
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> Peter Shute
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>> On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:50 am, Patrick Scully <> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>> I just recently had a trip down to Cheynes Beach (20 to 24 th Feb) with
>> Cherilyn Corker from Mandurah.
>> We had luck with just one of the 3 skulkers, the Noisy Scrub- bird. It was
>> calling but took enormous effort to get a brief view. The Western Whipbird
>> was not calling at all, with exactly the same result at Mt Trio in the
>> Stirling Ranges. We did hear one brief call of Western Bristlebird just
>> opposite the entrance to Cheynes Beach caravan park.
>> We did see an amazingly close view of Red eared Firetail and I suspect that
>> Pizzey and Knight are wrong with their description of the female. We saw
>> males with scarlet very bright (they were less than half a metre away) ear
>> patches and what I assume to be females that were identical but with no ear
>> patches. Is that correct? Can some knowledgeable person please explain. And
>> is Pizzey wrong about the female?
>> We were lucky with Rock Parrot. We had dinner with Cherry's friend in Albany
>> and she mentioned having seen an unusual bird on the beach, which of course
>> was a Rock Parrot. We arranged to meet her on Sunday morning and drove to
>> the cafe in the old whaling station and sure enough we had great views of
>> Rock Parrot on the beach below the cafe and the next beach to the right of
>> the cafe. I did try at Lancelin for another look without success. Another
>> treat was a very close up view of Elegant Parrots perched on low tree
>> branches at the Stirling Range Retreat in the afternoon.
>> Best wishes,
>> Patrick Scully
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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