Re: Sightings around Geelong

08/06/2004 -  A pair of Wedged
Tailed Eagles sitting on the same branch in a tree above the Anglesea Coalmine.

08/06/2004 - Wintering Eastern Curlew
at the Barwon River estuary, Sheepwash road.

08/06/2004 - 2 Black Tailed Native Hens
at Airey's Inlet swamp.

Just a note about Airey's Inlet swamp:
 A "beautification" program is underway conducted by a company
called 'Waterways and Streams'  - or something like that.  All
the Latham's Snipe Habitiat has been destroyed, which was also used by
coots, swamp hens, moorhens etc, as a breeding and feeding area. 

In place of the water ribbon etc, they
have planted native grasses and trees, that may deter many species from
visting the area. It really amazes me how such destruction can take place,
for the sake of percieved  'prettiness'.  You cant get more ugly
than cleared mud with tyre marks through it, in my opinion!

Peter