We are drinking champagne! I got in from Palau yesterday. The road in to
Mission Beach is now cleared so my brother drove me down to see our clever
intact house, which was just so good to see. Jeff may escape Ingham tomorrow,
he got marooned by flood. No power and no phones tho.
Helen
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On 04/02/2011, at 4:47 PM, "Alan Gillanders" <>
wrote:
Greetings and thanks for all the good wishes. We are just now back on line
after regaining power supplies yesterday evening. We are grateful for all our
good luck and thinking of those less fortunate. Has anyone heard from Helen
Larson?
Will reply to each of you who sent personal comments or questions as I get a
bit more time.
The following remarkable birds were seen at Tinaburra this midday on my lunch
break.
COMMON TERNS (4)
CRESTED TERN (1 or 2)
LESSER-CRESTED TERN (1)
PIED CORMORANT (1)
GULL-BILLED TERN (5)
CASPIAN TERN (1)
COMMON SANDPIPER (1)
There are still some Gallinago snipe in the paddock below the house.
Yesterday in Yungaburra, about 6 pm, Maria and I saw a large dark petrel with
long, thin wings, a shortish rounded tail and the 'wrists' held well forward.
First I called 'shearwater' then 'Great-winged Petrel'. That is still my best
guess but am not at all sure. We don't get a lot of those in the mid altitude
rainforests of north Queensland. (he says trying to build on his reputation for
understatement and so by undermining it!)
Regards,
Alan
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