RE: Two Painted Snipe seen at Lake George (on behalf of Mark Clayton) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[David Rees <>]

Scope would be better as birds were distant, air was bumpy at 2.30 so not good viewing conditions and both the birds sat down while I was there.  Just drive down Lake Road (off Bungadore Road - which connects with Macs reef road and Fed hwy from northern Canberra - any map will show you) 'till you see a large dam on your left cannot miss it , its a bit after where the tar runs out. There is a pull in opposite a farm gate on right  Good visibility of the dam from this point.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Julian Teh <> wrote:

Does anyone have coords for the pond? I've never been birding around lake George.

Were they findable with binoculars, or would a scope be necessary?

Thanks

Julian 

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On 2 Feb 2017, at 2:51 pm, David Rees <> wrote:

Just been out there at 230pm, both were on small island in small pond at the Bungandore end of the dam.

There are also lathams snipe but behaviour very different

David

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Perkins, Harvey <m("industry.gov.au","Harvey.Perkins");" target="_blank">au> wrote:

Mark also phoned me – he further said that the pair was on the southern edge of the big dam, but one flew to the small island. Hopefully that will mean something to people more familiar with the dam, or make more sense when they get there.

 

Harvey

 

 

 

From: Lori Gould [mailto:m("woodlandsandwetlands.org.au","Lori.Gould");" target="_blank">dwetlands.org.au]
Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2017 11:09 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Two Painted Snipe seen at Lake George (on behalf of Mark Clayton)

 

Hi All,

 

Mark Clayton has asked me to let you know that at 10am this morning he observed two Painted Snipe at Lake George.

They were near the big dam on Lake Road (adjacent to Lake George – he said most of you would know where that is).

 

He didn’t have access to his emails.

Cheers Lori

 

Lori Gould

Program Manager

Woodlands and Wetlands Trust (Jerrabomberra Wetlands)

 

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