MAROUBRA SWIMMING POOL CAR PARK, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES 2041, AUSTRALIA, EARTH, SOLAR SYSTEM, WESTERN ARM, MILKY WAY, QUADRANT 2382763, UNIVERSE NO 33 - 20.6.08

[Carl Clifford <>]

What is the Latitude and Longitude Graham? It make it much easier to
find on Google Earth.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

On 20/06/2008, at 5:51 PM, Graham Buchan wrote:

> Just in case Nikolas is reading this, I supply details of
> location..; )
>
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
>
>
> Just back from spending an enjoyable day’s birding with Ray Gobbe at
> Maroubra. The bird highlight of the day were an adult Northern Giant  
> Petrel
> in full sunlight this afternoon (clearly saw the grey eye, deep red  
> tip to
> pinkish beak, mottled white around the cheek and chin). That makes
> the first
> adult Northern seen by us – after seeing juveniles for years, the  
> adults
> must be rare around Sydney - last year we saw a white morph Southern  
> Giant
> Petrel, again the sole adult amongst many birds seen over the years.  
> In the
> morning we both observed a surface feeding shark which disappeared
> then
> breached by about 1m. This was perhaps the same one I saw yesterday,  
> and
> which a shark expert of Sydney Aquarium considers likely to be a
> Thresher –
> lobed pectoral, requiem tail with a much longer upper part with a
> notched
> look towards the end, sharp pointed head, c. 2m long). It was quite  
> a sight
> seeing it so dramatically show off its strength. In addition we saw  
> many
> Humpbacks going north including one group of 8 (including a frisky
> adult
> breaching and tail-slapping). Culinary highlight was Dory & Chips at  
> Danny’s
> Restaurant at La Perouse.
>
>
>
> Who needs pelagics? Oops, used the now somewhat sullied P word…
>
>
>
> Toodley-pippley birderinos!
>
>
>
> Graham Buchan
>
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