Managed a grand total of nil. Couldn't bring myself to take away all of your
glory!
Ryu
--- Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
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> So how did you go on Little Ravens?
>
>
> 😁😁😁
>
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>
> Martin
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>
> Martin Butterfield
> http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
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>
> On 14 May 2017 at 12:15, Ryu Callaway <> wrote:
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>
>
> Sorry Martin to finish off my evening bike ride around some of Tuggeranong's
> ponds I counted the starlings as they arrived to roost in the reeds at point
> hut pond, and your 280 Starlings is nothing in comparison - approximately
> just over 3200 starlings gathered from the paddocks extending out towards
> Tidbinbilla. They came in several flocks over about 7 minutes from sunset,
> with the 2 largest flocks probably about 250m wide on the front and extending
> 25m back.
>
> Just haven't got around to entering yesterday's birds yet because I spent
> over an hour counting the gulls from the photos of what I presumed to be a
> roost flight which I posted about a few days ago. Sunday's flock was 156 and
> Monday's flock was a whopping 614.
>
> Ryu
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>
> --- Martin Butterfield <> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > For my contribution to the eBird Big Day I toured The Plain yesterday
> > afternoon, recordng 31 species. Looking at the world wide results I find
> > that the flock of 280 Common Starlings I observed browsing among cattle
> > near Mills Cross and the record (two separate flocks) of 264 Little Ravens
> > feeding in recently cultivated land North of Briars-Sharrow Rd are both
> > World High Counts.
> >
> >
> > There is of course still time left in the day for a New World flock of
> > starlings to beat the count for that species, but being Spring in the North
> > the birds are less likely to flock up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Martin Butterfield
> > http://franmart.blogspot.com. au/
> >
> >
> >
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>
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