odd Qld claims

[Judith L-A <>]

Thanks, Andrew, for your immensely colourful reply! This is as I thought, and I'll pass it on to the observer in question - minus a bit of the colour, perhaps, as we don't want to crush any new birders, do we.

        (He was encouraged in his observation by one of the bird books apparently saying that the flocks of Flock Bronzewings do fly in eerie silence...)

Cheers,

Judith.

> Birders in
> other parts of Australia must think there's something in the water up
> here for the number of bizarre, and apparently unsupported claims that
> have been made in the past few days.
>  
> The most
> outlandish is Judith's second-hand report of Flock Bronzewings passing
> annually over Mt Mee in the state's south-east from 1998 to 2004.
> Judith, if this claim has any merit I will personally walk backwards
> to Birdsville, where hopefully I will finally see one. I can't say
> what I think they are, because if the observer noted that they fly in
> an "eerie silence", they obviously aren't
> pigeons.
>  
> The report
> of an Australian Bustard near Caboolture is marginally less unlikely -
> a bird lobbed into Lytton in Brisbane's bayside some years back - but
> such discoveries should be reported immediately with supporting
> details, not published uncritically in a newsletter after the
> fact.
>  
> I can think
> of a more likely candidate than a Grey Goshawk at Yowah in the state's
> south-west also.
>  
> Andrew

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Judith L-A
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