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Message: <blockquote data-quote="podargus" data-source="post: 2947414" data-attributes="member: 109359">18/02/12I was leaving Anglesea that afternoon, so I got up early to try and track down a couple of missing species. It didn’t take long to find one of these, as a Blue-winged Parrot flew up from a marshy patch in the wetland area. There were also a few White-naped Honeyeaters in the trees here. Unfortunately the other species, Tawny-crowned Honeyeater, never appeared, but it was still a very good morning of birding.I headed up into the heath covered hills behind the town. There’s a huge opencast coal mine here, and in the surrounding ironbark woodland there were both Yellow-tailed Black and Gang-gang Cockatoos, as well as a few more Blue-winged Parrots. Once again, Southern Emu-wrens were encountered fairly frequently. Further along the track some flowering trees had attracted a nice selection of Honeyeaters, including another Crescent and some White-eared Honeyeaters. However, the highlight in this patch was my second Echidna sighting. Like the one I’d seen in Cunnamulla, this one had buried itself firmly in the ground, with its head pressed up against a tree trunk. However, this one was slightly less stubborn than the previous one, and I eventually got a glimpse of its face as it peered around to see if the danger had passed. There hadn’t been any hair visible between the spines on Queensland Echidna either, but this one was noticeably furrier. A little bit later on the same track I had another Echidna trundle across the path well ahead of me. It had disappeared by the time I got there, but it was good to finally see an Echidna actually doing something! Higher up in the hills I had a brief view of a possible Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, and there was another nice pair of Scarlet Robins. Walking back, there were a few Eastern Grey Kangaroos visible in the distance on the local golf course.The journey back to Melbourne was fairly uneventful, but I did get a look at a nice white morph Grey Goshawk sat in a tree by the road. Birds388. Blue-winged Parrot</blockquote>

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