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Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs - Eastside

To: bob gosford <>
Subject: Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs - Eastside
From: Alan McBride <>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:48:08 +1000
Hi Bob,

I think I'd prefer "a rash of Spotted Harriers" ;-)

Alan



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On 30/08/2010, at 18:46 , bob gosford wrote:

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
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The Northern Myth blog
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Australia
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