A birding friend in Hobart tells a similar story. Like for us, the
Owlet Nightjar has been a long time 'bogey-bird', and also like us,
she's searched for it high and low. One evening last year, her non-
birding partner came in from an evening walk and casually asked her
if there was a small bird with whiskers. She demanded to know why,
and wasn't impressed when he said he'd seen one on his walk! She,
and we, still wait and look!
John & Shirley Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 03/08/2007, at 9:16 PM, Gemfyre wrote:
My boyfriend isn't terribly interested in birds. He does soak up a
surprising amount of the information I spout to him (unfortunately
I can't seem to digest most of the info he gives me about various
sports) and even regurgitates it at times! And he does admit to an
admiration of raptors.
Anyway, he seems to be a birding good-luck-charm for me.
Inevitably when on holidays I will drag him to good birding spots.
One time at Morialta Conservation Park in Adelaide I was seeking
two pretty common birds, but ticks for me - the European Goldfinch
and the Superb Fairy-wren. During our wander up the track an
Eastern Spinebill alighted on a branch directly in front of us -
another tick and later a pair of Goldfinches did the same, much to
my delight.
The fairy-wren proved a little harder. I could hear them calling
so I went stalking up a less beaten track while my long suffering
SO waited on the main path. I returned about 10 minutes later,
having not seen a thing. As I dejectedly headed back to the car,
about 50m or so on down the track my boyfriend asks, "Is that one?"
and points to a stunning blue fairy-wren right in the middle of the
track in front of him.
Belinda
Narrogin
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