Rain at Kilcowera Station (1 Viewer)

Hi to all at the bird forum! I can hardly keep the grin from my face - we had 97 mls on Christmas day! It started raining about 5.30am and just rained all day

About a week before the rain we started to see little flocks of Budgies flying west north west and thought " Oh well it probably is going to rain out there" as the weather bureau had been predicting rain for a large part of western QLD and NSW. And we waited and waited and it eventually started to rain.

Cardenyabba Creek is running all over the place as is Box creek, both of these are near our house and we can hear all the frogs croaking, croaking all night long. Poor little things - they must be very happy. There are swamps and dams full, the big lagoon near the shearers quarters will be full as well. We can't get to it yet and also don't know if there has been as much rain to the east out around Lake Wyara. Even though it will take a hell of a lot of rain to fill it up. But maybe the creeks ran out there as well.

We have not had this much water around the place this decade! :shock: I'll be able to fill in some of the water birds on my bird list now.

Happy New year to everyone and keep your eyes peeled! Cheers Toni

Hi Toni

It's not often people are pleased about a day of rain but after 10 years without much I suppose it's a relief.

Good luck with finding those waders.

Happy new year to you

D

We can send you plenty of snow from the UK...you can thaw it out for us.

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Marmot said:

We can send you plenty of snow from the UK...you can thaw it out for us.

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Surely something could be worked out! No, maybe your snow could be sprayed on the Arctic circle to help it out, it's a bit closer to you! Cheers Calenso