Bob Forsyth wrote:
Afterwards we visited various areas of Lake Moondarra .. some are
difficult to access
- Painted Finches - 100s / (At the pool opposite the Booster
Pump Station on way to the Dam wall/
- Cotton Pygmy-goose - 1 pair (/This pair are well out of territory &
have been resident for several years)/
- Swamp Harrier - 1 pair / (A rare visitor)/
- Spotless Crake - 2 (/Well out of accepted territory)/
- Baillon's Crake - 2
- Black-tailed Godwit - 1 /(My first for Mount Isa)/
- Freckled Ducks - 24 /(An occasional visitor of recent
years only)/
/-/ Mystery Raptor - 1 / (Back to us on the ground. Dark
body, with a white streaked head,/
/ and flew as I blinked)/
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Hi Bob
I saw a Spotless Crake at Alice Springs sewerage works last year so I
guess they can turn up anywhere if conditions are right. I also saw a
Little Grass Bird on the Canning Stock Route , again , way out of
"normal territory".
Could your mystery raptor have been a Swamp Harrier , your description
sounds like it and they are often on the ground.
Cheers
Dick Jenkin
DUNGOG NSW
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