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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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