I'll be in Melbourne later this year, with the pie (and birds) in mind!
That is, if I can fit the experience around my daughter's new baby (due in
late June!).
Denise
on 9/2/11 2:45 PM, jenny spry at wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> With violent rain storms penetrating my dining room ceiling, closing the
> Geelong to Melbourne Rd and turning the normally dry western plains sheep
> paddocks into prime snipe habitat we headed out last Saturday through
> numerous rain squalls, heading for a pelagic trip out of Port Macdonnell in
> S A. Sadly the wind and rain persisted and by 0800 on Sunday the pelagic was
> declared a non-event.
>
>
>
> Not all was bad though. I found that the little bakery in Dunkeld houses one
> of the world¹s great meat pie makers and that one of the best mimics lives
> close by. With my meat pie in hand we stopped for lunch at the local Lion¹s
> Park, just on the west side of Dunkeld, and were serenaded by a local Magpie
> who went through a large repertoire of calls.
>
>
>
> I had never heard the mimicry skills of the Magpie and, after visiting that
> font of all videos, You-tube, where a number of Magpies pretend to mimicry,
> I still have not heard anything to compare with this particular bird. The
> calls though soft, were as pure as a true Magpie dawn-song and 100% accurate
> to their origin.
>
>
>
> We were offered Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Pied Currawong, human voices,
> a dog barking, Kookaburra, some small twitterings along the line of wrens or
> thornbills and a Grey Shrike-thrush. He/she went over and over the full
> repertoire for about 5 minutes as we sat and had lunch. The human and dog
> sounds were so accurate that it took us some time to convince ourselves that
> they were actually coming from the bird, not from some distant dog owner and
> their pet.
>
>
>
> So if you are traveling through Dunkeld in western Victoria, stop for a pie
> and eat it in the Lion¹s Park with the Magpie. He/she may not sing for us
> again though because we drove off without paying for the concert with an
> offering of food, especially not any of the flaky pastry from atop my pie
> (smile).
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Jenny
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