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More GGs

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Subject: More GGs
From: "Jack & Andrea Holland" <>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:40:23 +1100
There has been a sudden influx of G-Gs into Rivett/Chapman too, yesterday morning there were up to eight, including 7 in my GBS site.  This morning I found 3 at the same spot in Rivett and time (6:50) as I originally did yesterday.  They were calling very softly and loathe to move, so I suspect they’d roosted there.
 
Jack Holland
 
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Dogs complained about being left out of the story.  ‘Hey we were there too’, they say, ‘as well as all those noisy burts’.  Not good subjects for a long lens and don’t really help, but easier to count

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Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2015 8:31 AM
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Combination dog walk and Gang-gang photography this morning. Standing on Rocky Knob (0710-0740) I could hear GGs from all points of the compass.  Very hard to count but conservatively at least 20.  A post-roosting pre-feeding aggregation.  By 0730 they had largely dispersed with just the odd croak heard now. In below blue-framed part flock only 2 of 8 appear to be males, but there are 5 of 9 in the other (red framed) flock.  Most are open-billed (eg inset), giving an idea of the cacophony at the height of the gathering.

 

 

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