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FW: 2004 Birding Highlights

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Subject: FW: 2004 Birding Highlights
From: "Gemfyre" <>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:19:42 +0800
Well, my first year of serious birding has ended, and man what a year it was. The great thing is the next year will be just as exciting because I will be working 2500km away AT a world famous bird observatory.

The hightlights

- Seeing a pair of endangered Hooded Plovers on the tip of the Eyre Peninsula.
- Finding a pair of Barking Owls at my parent's house. I'd lived there for 14 years and never ever seen an owl. I visit after having been moved out for a few months and chase a pair of owls around the neighbourhood and ID them as Barking Owls. My parent's live about 5-10km from a national park and there is a small reserve down the road, but still it was VERY surprising to find them there.
- Being surprised by a pair of Tawny Frogmouths roosting in a burnt out tree at Perry Lakes.  I was able to get close enough to get a good photo with my cheap digital camera.
- Visiting Herdsman Lake many many times and getting a list of 70+ species for that lake alone.
- Watching a Buff Banded Rail forage in the mud by the river for 5 minutes or more. Best look I've ever gotten of a Buffy Rail.
- Going on the CALM camp down south and surveying around there. I got a bunch of new birds down there including the long sought after Yellow-Breasted Robin.
- Going on a pelagic trip out past Rottnest and getting to see loads of Albatrosses and great birds like Storm Petrels.
- Visiting Lake McLarty, sloshing through water and mud and getting EIGHTY species in one day! Utterly amazing.
- Visiting people's properties in York and Pickering Brook and seeing all the awesome birds on their properties.

Maybe more as I think of them.
 
Belinda (from Perth)
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