ANPS at Bullen range

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Actually I'd think that Barn Owls, after Tawny Frogmouths and certainly young magpies are close to the most common road killed birds that you find on travels. Although Martin doesn't say if it was road kill but I'd think there would be many specimens available from that.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----
From: martin butterfield [
Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 6:56 PM
To: COG List
Subject: [canberrabirds] ANPS at Bullen range

The ANPS WW today was to Bullen range entering from
the Orroral Deep Space Tracking Station.

I ended up writing down 36
species with a very good mix of recent arrivals and very active 'normal' bush
birds.  I had great views of my first Sacred Kingfisher of the
season.  Most exciting was finding a dead Eastern Barn Owl.  The
opinion of a very experienced member of the group was that it had been dead to 2
- 4 weeks.  We didn't have a suitable receptacle and it was pretty stinky
so it was left in situ.  In anyone wishes to collect it I can give quite
precise geo-coordinates.

Martin