Hi everybody -
I have received an enquiry (below) from someone in Germany who is intending
to visit Australia for birding later this year. If anybody can help him,
please respond to him directly. As far as I know he is not subscribed to
Birding-Aus.
Thanks,
Hugo
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From: (keil)
To:
Subject: Bird watching trip to Australia from September to November 2000
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:43:34 +0200
Dear Hugo,
about the middle of September I start my 2. Australia trip together with my
wife
Helga in a Hertz Camper van "High Top". We start in Darwin and go back to
Germany at Melbourne on the 14. November 2000.
Naturaly my main interests are wild birds and animals, which we hope to
find in:
NT; then mainly in Western Australia, again NT (around Alice and Ayers
Rock) and a also a bit in South Australia and Victoria, and also in
Tasmania for a week.
The last two days we spend in Melbourne. I' m interested in:
a) Yellingbo State Wild life Reserve (Helmeted Honeyeater. Bell Miner -
according to Bransbury and Thomas is the breeding season between September
and Febuary the best time. And the best place: just west of the township is
Yellingbo. There is a bridge over Woori Yellock Creek on the Seville road.)
b) Sherbrooke Forest Park: Superb byrebird (best possibility: Clematis
Avenue),
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo, Olive Whistler + Pilotbird.
Rather my greatest wish would be to have contact with the Powerful Owl.
Thomas
has given Ferntree Gully NP (2.2) and Brisbane Ranges (2.7 - also with many
koalas) as the best places.
May be you could tell me actually a better place, and the best would be, if
you
could accompany me as a guide for a half or full day. Im sure I would like
that.
Please give me information about your financial ideas and your private
telephone
number with the area code, if you agree with my proposal.
We could realize some points of the program at 12. or 13. November. May be we
could manage to see the owl at Suturday evening (11.11).
I'm also interested in long-billed Corella (Western Hyw. between Horsham and
Ararat and in Hall's Gap/The Grampions with Gang-Gang Cockatoo). For myself
the Gang-Gang Cockatoo is much sought-after. Is it possible to see him in
your
Churchill NP at our time in Melbourne?
An absolute must is the Great Ocean Road (2.9) with blue-winged Perrot,
Rufous Bristlebird, Olive Whistler, Bruh Bronzewing, White-fronted Chat and
New
Holland Honeyeater. Can you, Hugo, give me an eexact place in Melbourne for
the
introduced Red-whiskered Bulbul?
Many, many thanks in advance. Best whishes and I hope - urgently - we could
meet us in Melbourne.
Lothar
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Hugo Phillipps
Communications Coordinator
Birds Australia
415 Riversdale Road
HAWTHORN EAST 3123, Australia
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