After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a lot of
Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp Harriers
near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice Springs last
Friday I'd just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single Spotted
Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice Springs
this morning.
Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral - and recent sightings give me a
reasonable degree of certainty - which I hope to confirm over the next few
days.
Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
And I'll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed Cuckoo
reports in Alice Springs - or Darwin, Katherine and points in between - over
the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus earlier today
of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre...
--
Bob Gosford
Crikey.com
The Northern Myth blog
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/
Alice Springs, NT
Australia
Ph: (+61) 0447024968
Twitter: @bgosford
"The NT Government does not respond to random electronic gossip sites."
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