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Woodswallows at New Line Paddock

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Subject: Woodswallows at New Line Paddock
From: "Kevin and Gwenyth Bray" <>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 23:10:00 +1100
We visited our son on his property "Highfield" in the Mt Adrah area just off the Snowy Mts Highway a few km east of the Hume Highway on Friday, where we took these photos of a dusky woodswallow with young in a crevice in a fence post.

Main reason for going was to join a group checking out birds that morning under the guidance of Sean Dooley, managing editor of Australian Birdlife. The property (mostly box woodland) is largely under a conservation trust covenant, with a large number of birds having been recorded. Sean was a terrific guide, instantly recognising myriad bird calls and helping us find and see nearly all the birds. He had been guest speaker at a Landcare dinner in Tumut the previous evening, where he entertained us with a humourous account of his having spent a year successfully breaking the then record number of different bird species seen in Australia (including island territories) by the one observer in a year. (We didn't write down the number he found, but it was, we think, just over 700 - which has since been increased by someone else). He has written an account of this in "The Big Twitch". We can highly recommend him as a speaker and as a guide on any kind of birding excursion.

Gwenyth and Kevin Bray





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