To all Birding-Aus-ers,
Thank you so much to all the people who gave advice and suggestions
for our recent holiday up through Victoria and NSW. There are too
many people to mention individually, but so many who willingly gave
advice, some of whom we met in person, some of whom we had a fairly
'in-depth' email conversation with, and some of whom we only got to
take on board your snippets of wisdom. The co-operation of this
community in all sorts of areas - research, ID, conservation
issues, ...... and even advice for itinerant twitchers like us - is
really amazing.
We had too far to travel, and too many friends and rellies to visit,
in too short a time, to have really productive birding (only 141
species - a fuller report to follow), but we did manage 5 out of our
6 "target" lifers, thanks largely to helpful advice from members of
this list. We even added Yellow Rosella (though not technically a
SPECIES). Even though three of the five were 'ferals', it was still
very exciting to pick up so many new birds in such a short trip. We
got onto Tree Sparrow at the CERES Environment Centre in East
Brunswick (Melbourne), and Song Thrush by walking the streets,
checking people's front gardens, not far away. We happened to meet
up with the radio-tracking team following the released Regent
Honeyeaters at Chiltern, and managed to be with them as they tracked
down three of their birds. Some of these have been associating with
wild Regents (and as we couldn't find any colour-bands on one bird,
I'm telling myself it MAY have been a wild bird!). We found Superb
Parrots just north of Cootamundra (the only half dozen we saw,
despite locals telling us they're COMMON!), and on a very wet
afternoon in Dee Why (Sydney), Peter Madvig helped us track down the
House Crow, though the weather and the time taken to entice the Crow
out of hiding meant we dipped on the Red-whiskered Bulbul - the only
one of our six we missed. On the way back south, we stayed at
Narranderra, in the hope of tracking down Yellow Rosellas (a new sub-
species for us), and found that they really ARE common there. All in
all, a very fulfilling trip - only next time, we're going to have
less travelling, less friends and rellies, and more BIRDS!
Thanks again for all advice and assistance so freely given! If we
can return the favour for people visiting Tasmania, please let us know.
Cheers,
John & Shirley Tongue
Tasmania
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