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Subject: Fw: Rainbow Beach Trip
From: "Vicki Parslow Stafford" <>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 18:26:18 +1000

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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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