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RE: A Ruff Morning

To: "'Crispin Marsh'" <>, "'birding-aus'" <>
Subject: RE: A Ruff Morning
From: "Edwin Vella" <>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:51:05 +1100
Well done Peter. Persistence does pay as I have said to several birdo's.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Crispin Marsh  
Sent: Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:51 AM
To: birding-aus
Cc: Edwin Vella
Subject: A Ruff Morning
 
Dear Edwin and other birders,
Having dipped on the ruff on Sunday morning by 10 minutes I decided that
the only thing to do was to give the ruff one last opportunity to redeem
himself before I head off to the Iron Range tomorrow. I was at Pitt Town
Lagoon (Hawkesbury River NW of Sydney) at around 6:00 to find a glorious
morning and a plethora of wonderful birds. Baillion's crakes were in
"plague" proportions, lots of sharpies, 1 wood sandpiper and 1 marsh
sandpiper but no ruff. I waited around for an hour or so and a flock of
sharpies flew into the south east corner of the lagoon (go to the left
as far as you can when you enter the reserve from Church St, Pitt Town)
and when I looked through that flock there was a "different" bird.
Taller than the sharpies with a white face and a pot belly - I had a
ruff.
 
Thanks to Edwin for reporting the presence of this unusual sighting.
Regards
Peter Marsh
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