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Vicgroup day at You Yangs

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Subject: Vicgroup day at You Yangs
From: mark kliene <>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:24:22 +1100
Hi all,

Took my little girl to the You Yangs today to join BA Vicgroup -  Merrilyn,David and Sue in birding and Boneseed eradication.
Weather was overcast,gusty but mild - not particularly condusive to birding, but had a great time all the same.
I must thank Merrilyn,David and Sue for making us feel very welcome and for their pleasant company.
I have collated a collective group birdlist, with my major highlight a Painted Button Quail. ( 40 species in all )
The list is as follows :-
Painted Button Quail                                        White Plumed Honeyeater
Little Pied Cormorant                                       New Holland Honeyeater
Australian Wood Duck                                     Eastern Yellow Robin
White Necked Heron                                       Crested Shrike Tit
Whistling Kite                                                  Grey Shrike Thrush
Wedge Tailed Eagle                                         Rufous Whistler
Nankeen Kestrel                                              Grey Fantail
Common Bronzewing                                       Willie Wagtail
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo                                Magpie Lark
Galah                                                                Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike
Musk Lorikeet                                                  Dusky Woodswallow ( numerous )
Little Lorikeet                                                    Grey Butcherbird
Eastern Rosella                                                  Australian Magpie
White Throated Treecreeper                              Australian Raven
Superb Fairy Wren                                            White Winged Chough
Spotted Pardalote                                              Welcome Swallow
Yellow Rumped Thornbill                                    Red Browed Finch
Red Wattlebird                                                   Mistletoebird
Little Wattlebird                                                  Common Starling
Noisy Miner                                                        Common Myna

Cheers,

Mark Kliene.
 

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