Jill,
Early spring at the pond in Lefoes Rd opposite the playing field
where the Bli Bli Wetlands road tees in was full of Wandering
Whistling Ducks.
I was back in December but no sign.
Chris Charles
0412 911 184
33deg 47'30"S
151deg10'09"E
On 22/01/2009, at 8:33 AM, Jill Dening wrote:
Hi All,
I'm posting to get some local reaction from my area, the Sunshine
Coast of Queensland. I live in the Glasshouse Mountains area, and
have lived in this house for 13 years. I became a birder back in
1985 whilst on an extended holiday in Europe, and for the first
time in my life had time to smell the roses. I have lived on the
Sunshine Coast for 21 years.
When I was first a birder, whistling ducks of both species were a
bit of an excitement, and certainly not commonplace. In fact I
would venture to call them uncommon then around here. In those days
I was a gung-ho birder, out there looking for birds at every
opportunity. However, in the few past years they have become rather
commonplace, or so it seems to me. We have a roofless courtyard in
the middle of our house, and most summer evenings as we eat our
dinner under the stars, we hear Plumed Whistling Ducks (I am pretty
sure Plumed, though it is dark when we eat) flying over the house.
In winter our morning walk is always taken when it is still dark,
and then we also usually either see or hear Plumed Whistling Ducks.
They really do move around a lot in the dark.
Is this the case all over the region, or do we happen to live under
a whistling duck flight path?
Cheers,
Jill
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Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
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