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An astonishing record of Arctic Tern in the Victorian High Country

To: Judith Hoyle <>
Subject: An astonishing record of Arctic Tern in the Victorian High Country
From: Alistair McKeough <>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:09:18 +1100
Must have ruined the esky getting it there.

2009/10/14 Judith Hoyle <>

>
> Hi Mike
>
> This would have to take the prize for the most bizarre report on
> Birding-Aus!  Any tern eating earth worms on a road in Cheshunt (I know the
> place quite well from years gone by) would be astounding, but an Artic
> Tern...what a wonderful report!!
>
> Regards
>
> Judith
>
> Judith Hoyle and Gavin O'Meara
> Brisbane
>
> > From: 
> > To: 
> > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:34 +1100
> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] An astonishing record of Arctic Tern in the
> Victorian  High Country
> >
> > Via Bill Ramsay, I've just received photographs taken by Geoffrey Vincent
> of
> > an Arctic Tern feeding on a bitumen road at Cheshunt, NE of Mansfield on
> the
> > northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, Victoria, on 26 September.
> It
> > was standing on the road picking up earthworms stranded there following
> > heavy rain!! The occurrence away from the ocean or coast is remarkable;
> the
> > behaviour astonishing. But we have had much wild weather.
> >
> > Mike Carter
> > 30 Canadian Bay Road
> > Mount Eliza  VIC 3930
> > Tel  (03) 9787 7136
> >
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