I hope that the sailfish was released.....
cheers
Mauro
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger McGovern [SMTP:
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 August, 1998 4:31 AM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: WA Birding Miscellania
>
> A couple of pieces of birding info gathered recently while on non-birding
> activities in Western Australia.
> Firstly, taking non-birding visitors for a weekend visit to the Margeret
> River region a couple of weeks ago, we visited a small winery called Black
> George located about 10km east of the Great Western Highway some 15km
> south of Manjimup. I was very surprised to see a small group (5-6) of
> Red-eared Firetails feeding on the grass outside the tasting room as
> confiding as House Sparrows in Hyde Park - sometimes inside the minimum
> focus of my 10x40's. This may be of interest to anyone that would like
> crippling views of this exquisite finch or who would like good photo
> opportunities of same.
> Secondly, I was in Broome last Friday and Saturday for a long-planned
> sail-fishing trip. We fished about 22 nautical miles offshore between
> 08.00 and 16.30 both days. The number and variety of birds was extremely
> disappointing. For the two days, I recorded 500-600 (50) Brown Booby, 40
> (3) Wilsons Storm Petrel, 1 Storm Petrel (sp), 1 Red-tailed Tropicbird,
> and 3 Lesser Crested Tern. The Storm Petrel (sp) was disappointing in
> that it showed up while I was actually connected to a large sailfish so I
> did not have an opportunity to use my binoculars. I observed a bird at a
> distance of 100m which was distinctly larger than a Wilson's, flew with a
> much more leisurely action and certainly had no white on the rump. I would
> be interested to receive any info on the known occurence of Matsudaira's
> Storm Petrel in this location.
>
> Roger McGovern
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