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From:
Nick <>
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Date:
Tuesday, 4 May 1999 7:52
Subject: birding-aus
pardalotes
Hello all
Not usually one for sentimental style
birding experiences, but this was amazing...
I was birding in Campbell Park in the ACT on
the weekend, and was trying to photograph some sitella's which were doing
their usual thing in a eucalypt, which had a wattle tree growing near its
base. My camera was close to a branch of the wattle tree, and I saw a bird
bounding down this branch. When it stopped i realised it was a female
spotted pardalote. By this stage she was only about 1 metre from the end of
my lens, and i was trying to back away so it would focus that closely - but
the pardalote must have been camera shy, cause it proceeded to hop onto my
lens and there was nothing i could do. It sat there on my lens for about 20
seconds before it jumped off. I wish i had a second camera to take a photo
of that moment. Are pardalotes usually this confiding??
Nick Leseberg
P.S Does anyone know of somewhere
close to Canberra where you can reliably see Painted
Button-Quail??
