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Re: RE: [canberrabirds] Kosciuszko

To: Steve Read <>, 'Susanne Gardiner' <>, 'COG List' <>
Subject: Re: RE: [canberrabirds] Kosciuszko
From: Ryu Callaway <>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 12:04:02 +0000
😂😂😂 what a coincidence!
Pipits (of which was had a group of about 20), kestrels, and Ravens pretty much 
sums up all there was to see beyond Charlottes Pass, other than some equally 
spectacular grasshoppers and a selection of butterflies.
Saw a lone Wedgie over Perisher both days, and a probable harrier. Other birds 
recorded between the campsite and Charlottes Pass include Flame Robins seen and 
Scarlet heard, Masked Lapwing, Yellow-faced HE, Brown Thornbills, Silvereyes, 
Striated Pardalote, kookaburras, choughs, WT Treecreeper etc. 
All Little Ravens except at the campsite where they were Australian.
Ryu


--- Steve Read <> wrote:
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> I recall my bird list for the walk from the top of the Thredbo chair-lift to 
> Kosciusko and back a few years ago comprised just three species: one Kestrel, 
> two Australian Pipits, and about a hundred Little Raven.
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> From: Susanne Gardiner <> 
> Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2018 6:17 PM
> To: COG List <>
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Kosciuszko
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> ah - I heard the very same Boobook this morning. Maybe it also was the same 
> possum that visited me under my hammock fly the night before....though there 
> are lots of bold possums. I wish the one we had in a tent a couple of years 
> ago knew about the zipper - it went straight through the flyscreen.
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> (I was there with my scouts...)
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> Saw about 5 White-throated Tree-creepers at Sawpit Creek - two of them 
> landing on trees an arms length away - just after I had put my camera 
> somewhere. 
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> Saw what I think were Australian Pipit just below Mt Kosciusko, but couldn't 
> get good views, but the behaviour and the white edge on the longer tail where 
> definite. 
> Other than that only Ravens up on the top. Didn't see a single Wedge-tail 
> Eagle, which we usually see when up there. 
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> Also saw some black Brumbies between lake Cootapatamba and Kozzi. Never seen 
> them this high up. 
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> Susanne
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> From: Ryu Callaway <>
> To: COG Chat <> 
> Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2018, 18:00
> Subject: [canberrabirds] Kosciuszko
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> Just returned from 2 days in Kosciuszko with a school group. Small numbers of 
> white-throated needletails seen both days near Charlottes Pass. Boobook heard 
> at Sawpit campground, where I woke up at 3:54am to find a possum on my 
> sleeping bag peering down at me! It had broken into my tent and some of my 
> food, before apparently coming over to check me out. Over the next 40 
> minutes, it returned 3x to try and get back in, seemingly aware of the 
> function of the zipper.
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> Ryu
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