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FW: [canberrabirds] An unusual bird (2)

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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] An unusual bird (2)
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:26:53 +1000

The continuation of the below hypothetical exchange went as follows.

 

Ian said, ‘Don’t cry.  Tell me what it looked like.’  You described it to him.

 

 Ian thought a bit about that, and said:  ‘This will sound a bit unusual, and I might be wrong, but I think that was a Curlew Sandpiper that had retained quite a bit of its breeding plumage’.

 

And it was.

 

Paul Taylor got it too.  The ‘hint’ pic showed 2 Curlew Sandpipers in normal eclipse plumage.

 

The experienced Canberra birdwatcher who proposed a (some might think) apt, if coarse, label based on the bird’s posture gets one-quarter of a point.

 

 

 

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From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2007 8:59 AM
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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] An unusual bird (2)

 

Re the below, a volley of shots near the target but no bullseye.  It is so important to keep Canberra birdwatchers on their toes, I always say.   This is all you might see of the bird from the hide, when Ian Fraser walks in and says ‘Anything around?’, and you turn to him to say ‘Yes, there’s an unusual wader out there near the pelican’ and when you look back it’s gone, never to be seen again

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