Yes, when you go to the Iron Range, you can camp at Cooks Hut or stay
in a B&B at Portlands Road. I camped at Cooks Hut, close to the
Eclectus and Double-Eyed Fig Parrots.
Alternatively, when you go birding along the Gibb River Road, you can
camp or spend $100+ pp per night at the various lodges along the way.
In the same vein, you have birdos travelling round with $000+ optics
while others use $00 optics.
The question is, which birdos have been peddling the $s in local
economy line? The ones who escort affluent OS tourists to the bird
sites?
Methinks you forget that some people actually enjoy camping.
Regards, Laurie
On Thursday, June 15, 2006, at 04:06 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
Hi Colin,
Yes this is quite typical of W-w Choughs. It is part of their complex
social signals. I don't know of other birds doing it, but no doubt
there are others somewhere. I can't think of any reason why it should
be restricted to birds with red eyes.
A funny although peripheral point to your message and I don't know
either your circumstances or local circumstances, so I'm not trying to
be critical. Birdos talk about our activity generating tourism $s but
it sounds to me like you contributed very little: in that way. "The
other half wasn't happy about spending a second night 'sleeping' in
the car", Well I wouldn't like it either. I think birdos are not very
good at contributing finances towards generating tourism. Like at the
BA congress in Cairns in May last year. One of the presentations at
the congress was about our activity generating tourism $s for local
communities and even though several local providers had organised
tours that were well advertised, almost all were cancelled due to not
enough interest (including the one I booked for, which was a real
disappointment for me).
Philip
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