Ah the Saxby Rodeo, doesn't that bring back some memories of my time in
Cloncurry. I'll check my diary but I have had Gouldian Finch (black face and
red face) plus Pictorella Finch at a water hole just south of Georgetown on
the Forsyth Road on the 19 April 1987 with the Easter Camp of the Cairns
Nat. Club. Arnold Magarry was the first to sight the birds so the waterhole
was named "on Gouldian Ponds". No GPS back then so I cannot provide the
location.
Jon Wren
Mark said
G'day All
Bob Forsyth from Mount Isa and I headed up North-east from Julia Creek up
north of a little 10 person town of Nelia yesterday (Sunday 12/12/2004) with
the aim of tracking down some Queensland Gouldian Finches on a property we
had seen over 300 Black-throated Finches about a month and a half earlier.
We've had a little bit of rain up here (try 8 inches about three days
before) which made the dirt roads a bit boggy out across the black soil of
the mitchell grass plains.
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