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Shoveler a 'No-Show' at Werribee

To: Peter Shute <>
Subject: Shoveler a 'No-Show' at Werribee
From: Scott Ryan <>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:40:46 +1000
Great news Peter.
Myself & another Canberra birder are planning on driving down Sunday night if 
it was still around.
Are there any birding-aussers who would be interested in meeting us out there 
on Mon or Tues morning for a twitch?

Sent from my iPhone

On 18/05/2013, at 5:24 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:

> It's still around, I found it easily at about 1pm today - I just drove to 
> where all the cars were parked and got someone to point it out. I had driven 
> past this spot 30 minutes before, and missed it. It's easy to see if it's 
> facing you, not so easy if it's facing away or distant.
> 
> It was at the north east corner of Lake Borrie, and I think it had been there 
> an hour or so before I got there. Soon after that, it flew to the north east 
> corner of the pond to the west of Lake Borrie. This is the pond that's 
> separated from Lake Borrie by a narrow causeway you can drive on.
> 
> Then it seemed to just drift with the wind almost to the east side of that 
> pond, where it encountered 3 or 4 male Australasian Shovelers swimming south 
> west. It swam hard to catch up with them, gave up, caught up again, then they 
> all swam back to the north east corner. There it got out on the bank for a 
> while till all the ducks there flew back into the water. I left at about 2.30 
> after having watched it for about 1 and 1/2 hours.
> 
> Thanks to whoever found it first today, I think it was Steve Davidson, and to 
> those who pointed it out to me later. Sorry you missed it, John, it's the 
> luck of the draw when a bird could be at any of dozens of ponds. I tried a 
> couple of times when there was one here in 2011, and never found it. 
> Hopefully this one will stick around longer than that one did.
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
> ________________________________
> From:  
>  On Behalf Of John Tongue 
> 
> Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:50 AM
> To: Birding-Aus Aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Shoveler a 'No-Show' at Werribee
> 
> Sadly, despite a day of concerted searching around Walsh's Lagoon, from there 
> to the Borrow Pits, and around Lake Borrie, the Northern Shoveler was not to 
> be seen.  A quick check around T-Section late in the afternoon also failed to 
> turn up the Aus Bittern seen recently.
> 
> Not the most successful in terms of targets, but sill, a very pleasant day.
> 
> John Tongue
> Ulverstone, Tas.
> 
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