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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g'day all again,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Last Tuesday week (27/02) just before
dusk, I saw 5 or 6 White-throated Needletails.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The wing/body length ratio only left
Fork-tailed Swifts to consider and these did not have a forked tail. A
couple showed white behind the belly. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was only able to see them as they passed by the
gaps in the trees. They were high & travelling towards the north in a loose
group but individually zig-zagging a little as if looking for
insects. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>It had been raining the
previous few days and it did again on the Thursday.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I had been checking out a station dam about 7km south of the city
which had been bone dry for about a year. It was host to several dozen
<STRONG>Pictorella Mannikins</STRONG> and 4<STRONG> Painted Finch</STRONG> plus
a range of other species including a 2 unfledged White-winged Trillers still in
their nest.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had not seen PMs for over a year and even never so far south. The PF have
been very rare but now the grasses are seeding I have recorded them feeding only
300m from my home.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards<BR>Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.</DIV><FONT size=1></DIV>
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