Hi,
For those of you still unable to find, or who are totally dissatisfied with
squinting at, the poorly coloured Painted Snipe specimen at Banyule, there
are at least two, a beaut female and an equally nice but not so brightly
coloured male, and possibly a second female, at Kaurna Park just north of
Salisbury in South Aust. ( first found and reported by Ian May 10/12/01)
For those technically minded folk the fixes are: (pick your favourite
system )
WGS 84 34 44 13s, 138 36 13e or 34 73694444444s , 138.6e
AMG 34 44 10.0736s , 138 35 55.1353e or 34.7361315581699s,
138.598648718284e
UTM N 54 280148.056, E 13846421.0 or N 54
280274.748 E 13846494.9
How's that for keeping locations secret ! (FNQ birdos please note)
So, what are you sitting there for ? The birds are only about 20m out from
the levee bank alongside the highway. Off your bots and come and and see
some proper Painteds.
Tony. ( we need your tourist dollars, or yens, or quids or
whatever).
ps: my thanks to whoever it was who sent me an understandable and
super-usable grid reference conversion spreadsheet other than that Redfearn
monster.
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