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the vicissitudes of birding

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Subject: the vicissitudes of birding
From: Ian Fraser <>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:27:43 +1000
On Monday I was at the Newline site in the rain in the middle of the day looking at the Bl-chinned HE. I was absolutely surrounded by birds, as reported by others. This morning, it being bright and sunny I slipped back out to take some photos - and, apart from the reliable Brown Treecreepers (and how wonderful is that?!), not a feathered sausage! No honeyeaters, shrike-tits, Sp Warblers, Jacky 'Winters, etc etc etc. Nothing to be deduced from this of course, other than that we should never write a site off after just one visit. (Or maybe, we should go birding in the rain in the middle of the day...)

And of course, it's that uncertainty which is perhaps the central joy of this ridiculous passion of ours.

keep enjoying it, all.

Ian

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