For anyone going to Uluru or the Top Ed we have a couple of bits of
advice. Buy the book "Boom and Bust" which is interesting anyway.
But it makes the visit to Alice Springs and the Centre even more
interesting, particularly, the article about the zebra finch. In
Alice Springs we went to the Desert Park and saw crimson finches
nesting. It is a great park. As we watched the sun set over Uluru,
about a dozen crested finches were very close to us, picking up any
crumbs from our niblies. Just before the sun set, they all flew
away, to roost I guess, but we could not see where they had gone.
There are very few trees of any size, in that place
Two other books to have if you are Darwin are "Finding Birds in
Darwin, Kakadu and the Top End" by McCrie and Watson and "Birds of
Australia's Top End by Goodfellow". We did not buy eiter of these
books because the folk at the B.and B. where we stayed for 3 nights,
close to Fogg Dam lent us their's. It was a marvellous place to
stay, with many small birds in their garden. More information about
it to anyone interested
Near to the far end of the Fogg Dam, behind a tussock, about 4 metres
away, we saw the heads of 2 swamp harrier chicks pop up. When we
returned, a week or so later to check on their progress there was no
sign of them and there were tracks through the grass, (not a croc,
although they are around). Who, and why, would someone steal chicks?
Elizabeth
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