Likewise from Taylors Point at the south end of Kewarra beach, have seen
PIPs flying out towards double island at dusk but nothing during the
eclipse.
We got clear sky just before totality, then cloud, then to the small
crowd's delight it mostly cleared to wispy cloud about half way through.
There wasnt much bird song on the windy headland, a few small unidentified
birds took flight as it dimmed, but eyes and cameras were focused on the
sun.
cheers
Andrew Bell
> no John, PIPs are smarter than that. None to be seen while
> eclipse-watching on Wongaling Beach. Howling wind made listening for birds
> problematic but the light-show was worth it - two brief glimpses through
> the offshore rain and clouds.
>
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>
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> From: John Leonard <>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 8:33
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Birds at the eclipse
>
> We came up to cairns for the eclipse, we were staying in palm cove but
> decided that there would be too much morning cloud over the sea. So we
> drove inland to Mareeba and a little further west and had perfect views of
> the eclipse from a stop by the road on high ground facing east amidst
> mango orchards.
> Around about were white-bellied cuckoo-shrikes, figbirds, pied
> butcherbirds and magpie larks. In front of us was a weedy field with
> cisticolas calling from it.
> The eclipse was about an hour after sunrise, and so not as dramatic as it
> would have been later; it only got appreciably dark five minutes before
> totality, and totality itself was quite short, only about 1 minute.
> My attention was torn between the sun and the birds, I didn't notice any
> unusual behaviour, all that happened was that for about the ten minutes of
> darkness the birds fell silent and didn't move about. After the eclipse
> they carried on as before.
> If we'd been on the coast it would have been interesting to see if the
> torresian imperial pigeons headed offshore when it got dark!
>
> John Leonard
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