Hi all,
Returned this morning form Darwin. Allan Benson, Rob Benson and I
couldn't resist the pond heron so we planned 3 days in NT with
additional target birds that we had missed on previous trips to Kakadu
National Park.
We were fortunate to spot the pond heron at about 7.30 am on Thursday
morning after waiting for about half an hour. It landed close and in a
dead tree giving spectacular views. We then headed to Pine Creek looking
for Chestnut-backed Button-quail at the cemetary and Copperfield Dam
without success. Staying at Mary River Roadhouse we headed to Nourlangie
Rock early on Friday morning seeing, after some searching and listening,
the Banded Fruit-Dove.
We headed back to Pine Creek and on early on Saturday morning,
successfully seeing a CBBQ after tracking it down by its call. We had
good long views of the bird as it flew away and for some distance giving
great views of its back in good light.
Returning to Darwin we met up with a number of birders including the TV
star at Leigh Point and watched some great waders, an Affinis
Gull-billed Tern and some flocks of Varied Lorrikeets as they flew over.
A very successful twitch with each of us gaining some bonus species. The
Kakadu Highway from Pine Creek had obviously been under water recently
but was open with minor water damage at a couple of spots.
John Reidy.
Ps. Not really sorry for missing the TV report.
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John Reidy
Sydney
Phone 02 9871 4836
Fax 02 9871 2616
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