Hi Tony
It is just back down the road a few kms. There is one main road up Dampier
Peninsula called the Cape Leveque Rd and Manganan is on the left hand side
about five mins drive from One Arm Point, if you are coming up from Broome
between Kooljamun turn off and One Arm Point.
Gary
2009/10/18 Tony Russell <>
> Gary, very interesting that you got red-faced as well as black. How far
> and in which direction is Manganan from One Arm Point ? I can't find it
> on Google Earth.
>
> Thanks, Tony.
>
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> To: birding aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] gouldian finches Dampier peninsula Broome
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>
> At Manganan campground near One Arm Point on Dampier peninsula, sitting
> and having a cup of tea and 18 gouldian finches fed around us for over
> an hour until we went off to scour the mangroves. There were 4 black
> faced and
> three red faced birds and the rest were juveniles. They were feeding
> on
> loose soil in woodland that had been previously burnt. Unfortunately a
> lot
> of burning goes on, on dampier peninsula, seemingly at the wrong time of
> the year, like over the last few months and still continuing. I don't
> know what effect it has had on the gouldians, but I suspect not a good
> effect. Frank and Maureen who run the campground indicate that the
> birds have been there for a long time( in speaking to Adrian Boyle he
> indicated that there was a
> resident population on the peninsula). Frank indicated that Gouldians
> nested in someones campervan once and they stayed until the babies
> fledged! Gary =============================== www.birding-aus.org
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