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 Hello, newbie and rabid birdo |
| Gemfyre |
| Posted on: June 1st, 2006, 10:04pm |
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Blame Matt the Rat (not for the birding, but for showing me this board).
Yeah, I've been birding for a bit over 2 years now. 9 months of that was spent working at Broome Bird Observatory becoming full bottle on migratory waders. I also attend as many Birds WA walks as possible and am a member of Birds Australia.
I keep a list of all the species I see every day. I told you I was rabid. |
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| leece |
| Posted on: June 2nd, 2006, 11:23am |
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Welcome! Well good on you! It's strange though, sometimes you can see odd stuff while you're just going about your daily business. I remember seeing a Spotted Harrier hop up casually onto someone's front fence, whilst driving along in Karrinyup!
Then, just two weeks ago Rob and I were riding along the freeway bike path in Leederville, where they're doing all that construction work and a Southern Boobook flys out over our heads and circles around, totally unconcerned.
What's the oddest thing you've seen while just going about your daily business? |
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| Gemfyre |
| Posted on: June 2nd, 2006, 1:17pm |
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I think that award would have to go to a pair of Barking Owls that showed up one night at my parent's place in Greenmount. I was just there for a BBQ and heard this noise and chased them around the neighbourhood with a spotlight to get a good look.
Apparently Barking Owls in the metro area are worth reporting, but I'd only started birding then so I didn't know about unusual record forms and that stuff. |
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| leece |
| Posted on: June 4th, 2006, 9:35am |
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Must have been a thrill!
We saw a Bustard when we were coming back from Worldcon in '99 near the SA border on the Indian Pacific. Not exactly going about our usual business, but that was a thrill too. We put in a record for the Atlas for that one. |
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