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King Penguin

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Subject: King Penguin
From: "rorert john brown" <>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:04:59 +0800
Top O' the Evening to all you Aus-Birders:-   Have just got back from a day trip to see the King Penguin.  Left Phillip Island at 04.00hrs and returned thereto at 19.30hrs. Round trip of 1200kms.  Yes the bird is still there !!  Or at least it was at 11.30hrs !!!!   It was a bit like a fair with 8 other birders there, including 3 from Sydney who had flown to Melbourne, then to Mount Gambier, where they hired a car and went to see the bird ( wouldn't that have been a disappointment if the bird had "flown").  --  this is getting a bit like England or indeed for that matter Ireland!  Bird easily found in the same locale.  However it did seem to have lost a lot more feather down  -  compared to the photographs I have seen of it.   I don't know what the bird is eating, but while observing the "beast" it defecated,(for the unenlightened this word does appear in the dictionary, which a lot of you seem to have  been using recently  -- so look it up for yourselves) and deposited a large, saucer-sized, puddle of pale GREENY-BLUE excrement on the sand. Perhaps it had been drinking "Creme de Menthe", it certainly wasn't Guiness, and it certainly is a good job they don't fly.   However a fruitful day, now approaching 640.. Best Wishes to you all  ----    Robbie Brown.
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