When I wrote "2 hours SE of Perth", I was hanging out the bait, and I was
surprised that I only got 1 nibble :-) Things are improving on birding-aus
... Mind you, Philip's reply was 1st April, and so I didn't take it too
seriously ...
I prefer to express distances as 2 hours for many reasons, rather than
170km. Depending where you are in Australia, 170km can take 1.5 to 3 or 4
hours to travel depending on hills, gravel roads, traffic, etc. Although,
if I haven't any idea where it is, then I would need a map to find it in
the first place. In any case, if people wanted to know more details then
they could refer to my web page for Dryandra (under development), or they
could send a request for more information.
Returning to birding issues, I mentioned interesting sightings, and then
forgot to add them at the end of the original message. For the record, I
saw Fairy Martin (1 - uncommon in the SW), White-browed Babbler (4 - the
first I have seen for a while at Dryandra), Western Yellow Robin (1), Jacky
Winter (2), Painted Button-quail (1 & 2 & many platelets), Wedge-tailed
Eagle (1), Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (1 heard - uncommon in the SW),
Blue-breasted Fairy-wren, Western Thornbill, Red-capped Parrot, Western
Spinebill, Rufous Treecreeper, Short-beaked Echidna (1 - my 2nd sighting),
etc plus juvenile / immature White-cheeked, Tawny-crowned, Yellow-plumed,
White-naped Honeyeaters. Someone else saw two Crested Shrike-tit.
And the wet season has decided to make a late comeback at Argyle ...
Laurence & Leanne Knight <> on 06/04/99 15:43:58
Please respond to
To: Philip A Veerman <>
cc: Frank O'Connor/Argyle, Birding-Aus <>
Subject: Re: birding-aus Magpie Attacks Red-capped Robin
Philip A Veerman wrote:
>
> Just a trivial point along the lines of where observations occur. This
> report mentioned "Dryandra State Forest (about 2 hours SE of Perth)". Yes
> I've heard of Dryandra and I can look at a map, but how does the
space-time
> relationship get around 2 hours SE of Perth. What does that actually
mean?
Phillip, it is standard practice in regional areas to talk in travel
time terms rather than distances. "Two hours" means two hours driving
time, which in your terms means 150-200 km. For reference purposes,
Albany is four and a half hours from Perth, Kalgoorlie and Kalbarri are
about 6 hours, Esperance is about 8 hours {assuming you don't stop to
look at the malleefowl at Ongerup} and Exmouth is about 13 hours from
Perth.
LK
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