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> From: Vicki Parslow Stafford <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: Rainbow Beach Trip
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 6:12 PM
>
> Just a quick report back on my trip to Rainbow Beach, Qld 18 - 22 May.
>
> But first, thanks to everyone who was kind enough to email me with
> directions to the best spot to look for Ground Parrots (and also to those
> who gave me helpful advice about binoculars). My hard drive crashed 6
> weeks ago and has only just been fixed, so I was not able to email
everyone
> personally to thank them (and I seem to have lost all my old mail as
well).
>
> Anyway, I followed the directions and SUCCESS! Yes, I saw a ground
parrot
> -- one was cooperative enough to break cover behind me as I was
attempting
> to call up some wrens. No emu-wrens, but got a great look at a brown
> falcon perched on the power lines, and also a dozen or so brown quail
which
> ambled out of the heath and across the track just on dusk. Also, in
> Rainbow Beach, got a lovely view of two peregrine falcons (one imm.)
> soaring just in front of the house I was staying at.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Vicki PS
>
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