Ian
We were there at around midday and there were plenty of birds including
several brown treecreepers, a pair of speckled warblers, a jacky winter,
plenty of wrens and thornbills, white-plumed HEs, but no black-chinned HE.
Lindsay and Rhonda Hansch
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From: Ian Fraser
Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:28 AM
To: Cog line
Subject: the vicissitudes of birding
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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Ian Fraser,
Environment Tours; Vertego Environmental Wordsmithing
GPO Box 3268, Canberra, ACT 2601
ph: 61 2 6249 1560 fax: 61 2 6247 3227
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