Just a message for Tom and mandy wilson...and anyone else interested
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your trip in the N.T and your birding
highlights.....
It brought back good memories.
In regards to the Gouldian Finches that you were trying to see...I was at Lake
Argyle W.A a couple of years ago and
Gouldian Finches/black faced and red faced were fairly plentiful at the caravan
park there up on the hill.
Each morning, sprinklers would be turned on to water the grass....As you drive
in the entrance to the park, you drive along a little way till your pretty much
at the back of the park and then you turn left and along there on your right
you will see a raised dirt/grassy area, this is where the sprinklers would be
and each morning the Gouldian finches would be drinking at the puddles from the
sprinklers and bathing in them, but they all seemed to clear out by 6:30am and
fly up into the trees and just sit there or fly away and dissapear. So you had
to get in early to photograph/view them, i did locate a red faced one later in
the day by itself near my motorhome...
So, i know this is in W.A but perhaps a trek out there one day will be worth it.
Other great birds plentiful around the caravan park are Spinifex pigeon, double
barred finch, northern rosella, great bowerbird, and out behind the park is a
walk which i viewed White quilled rock pigeon fairly easily....there is also a
birding cruise on lake argyle available.
Lake Argyle is an incredible place, can't wait to return
Hope this helps for the future
Regards Kirri
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