Birding highlights for 1999? In no particular order .. and all in
Victoria this year:
* Seeing the long lost Chestnut-crowned Babblers in Terrick Terrick
National Park.
* Multiple sightings of Black-breasted Buzzards and Red-chested
Button-quails on Gunbower Island - and great looks at them.
* The fantastic Pied and Black Honeyeater show put on in northern
Victoria this year; plus the support cast - legions of Cockatield,
Budgerigars, Crimson and Orange Chats.
* Cracking 200 species on the Victorian Twitchathon, and going on to
205 to win back-to-back flags!
* Numerous close encounters with Superb Parrots in Barmah Forest.
* Looking at just about any bird through my new Swarovski bins!
* Being kept company at my Barmah Forest campsite by Dollarbirds and
Azure Kingfishers.
* Painted Honeyeaters singing and flying in light rain at Killawarra
State Forest.
* A full set of Victorian robins - Red-capped, Flame, Scarlet, Pink,
Rose, Hooded, Eastern Yellow.
.. and probably a few lesser miracles that I've overlooked.
L.
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