Armidale
1 week, 85 fish guts, a few beers, no new birds and no trout.
Today I rose with a mild hangover, ate breakfast, drank the ‘best coffee in town’ and toured the local garage sales with a few kids from UNE. I was on the optimistic lookout for old track bikes. One of the sales featured a pie warmer, whereas another featured a girl with Rosie, an (untickable) Ecelctus Parrot, on her shoulder.
In the afternoon, following a quick bike maintenance session, we went fishing. Now, when I say fishing, I mean it in the most liberal sense of the word. We bascially walked up and down a stream high in the Gwydir River catchment, chucked a few flies around, laid about in the grass, watched platypus and took a few photos.
There were some White-Throated Honeyeater lookin’ thingys, but I didn’t get a lock-on.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:36 am
very sweet - looks like winter has arrived up there.
and that looks like one big platypus.
i think lots of the birds are on the move at the moment.
May 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I saw a Weebill this morning *tick* and a Striated Thornbill (one of those birds which you know when you see it, that it’s different from a Brown Thornbill).
May 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
yesterday i learnt that the difference between the brown and straited thornbill is the red eye of the brown (easiest to see in sunlight) and fact that the striated live higher up. the browns i see in kuringai are usually at head height or below.
alex can let me know if i have it right or not.
May 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Hmm…. well these were in low shrubs, so maybe I’ll have to get a few photos.
This afternoon we returned for more fishing action, deciding that the weather was too nice to be cooped up in the lab. I saw Striated Pardalotes *tick* and confirmed the others as White-naped Honeyeaters.