Today I went out to Mulligan's Flat and basically toured the property.
It really was excellent weather and i felt sorry for those stuck in
offices. Pole sana!
I ended up writing down 46 species of which the more inteesting to me
were brown-headed honeyeater (6 at least) white ibis (skein of 50
flying overhead heading SW), beautiful male hooded robin, ibid scarlet
robin, western gerygone (2), mistletoebird (2 - 1 of each sex),
horsefield's bronze-cuckoo, pallid cuckoo (several of both of those),
speckled warbler (two singles and a double at widely different spots).
The amount of scientific paraphenalia around the reserve (lurid
plastic flags on wires; green frisbees nailed to the ground) is quite
impressive. Perhaps the place should be renamed the PhiD Phactory?
Less appealing were the number of 4WD tracks all over the place - not
just on the designated tracks bit through tussock grass and over the
frost hollows.
WRT to discussion of kamikaze in other threads. I believe the
original reference was to a typhoon (designated a "sacred wind") which
wiped out a fleet of potential invaders. The pilots of WW2 hoped to
have the same effect and usurped the word. having been swooped by a
masked lapwing at various times the blast of bereeze is sufficient for
me to think the attribution of sacred wind is quite appropriate.
Martin
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