Hi Col,
Great - i've got a bite:
My "voluptious old 'gophs" are Angophora Costata, common names for which have
included Smooth-barked apple, Sydney Red Gum or Tumbledown gum.
No sign of the eagles today, just a flock of 50+ little black cormorants
rounding up all the fish (with attendant silver gulls pinching some of the
takings from their mouths), 1 darter, 4 crested terns, 1 pied cormorant and 1
w/f heron all fishing successfully in the muddy waters of Berrys Bay - with
all the runoff from recent downpours.
Regards
----Original Message-----
>From: scouler <>
>To: Bruce Roubin <>
>Cc: birding <>
>Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Raptors close to city Sydney
>Reply-To:
>Date: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:52 PM
>
>Hello Bruce,
>
>What in the name of poetic licence are "voluptious old 'gophs"?
>
>Regards,
>Colin Scouler.
>
>
>Bruce Roubin wrote:
>
>> Good eye*, Took a lunchtime stroll to Balls Head from my office at
>> North Syd today (20 mins walk), and found a magnificent pair of
>> foraging guinea fowls which I felt a redundant urge to be very
>> protective of, because there were 3 white-bellied sea eagles circling
>> overhead. The guinea fowls are let out occasionally by the Earth
>> Sciences lab (or whatever) above HMAS Waterhen, and I guess the sea
>> eagles were on an outing from their usual abode and nestsite at the
>> Silverwater nature reserve (up the Parra River). I haven't seen them
>> here before.One evening last week (4.30pm), I found a whistling kite
>> at the same place (in the cyclone-fenced-off voluptious old 'gophs
>> above HMAS Waterhen), which is only about 1-1.5km west of the
>> coathanger.He took-off crowed by miners.I also watched a sea eagle
>> looping around Taren Pt, Botany Bay last weekend. *thanks Kim Carey
>> for that send-up Regards,Bruce Roubin
>
>
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