Thank you to all the birders who gave me information on locating these
species. I have just returned from a very focussed birding trip to the
Inland with Klaus Uhlenhut. The trip was incredibly successful with Klaus
seeing 13 new species with Hall's Babbler as his 600th bird. Thsi 600 was
achieved without going to Tasmania and without any pelagic species. As I
had been to the western side of the Simpson Desert only a couple of months
ago, my new lifers numbered 8.
The conditions in the inland are very dry. We worked hardest for the grey
grasswren and it took us 3 visits over 2 days to be finally successful. We
went to site at Pyamba Station about 3 km north of the dog fence. We
finally found them - brief but good views - about 1.8 km past the dam at
about 9.20 in the morning even although we were always birding from dawn
onward. They did not respond to the tape at all even when we were watching,
and there a lot of white-winged fairywrens in the area.
That evening we went 36km west of Cameron corner and and stopped on the top
of a red dune. Within 30 minutes a pair of Eyrean grasswrens were seen.
They responded immediately to the tape
Thank you again,
Fiona Anderson
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