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<blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1299675" data-attributes="member: 27337"><p><strong>Adelaide</strong></p><p></p><p>H- About as good as I can do with the Dotties is : head north out of Quorn on the main road to Hawker for c30km and look in the "fields" on the right. It's not far before an unsealed "tourist drive" road on the left. There were plenty of Oz Pipits and a few corellas in the dottie "field", and a large flock of corellas/Galahs in the field on the other side of the road just before the "tourist drive road".</p><p></p><p>Chowie- Think I've missed my chance for many of the inland species we could have seen in the Alice area now. Too many directions to go in from here ! I just hope the birds are indeed somewhere, rather than the populations have totally crashed after so many years of drought. </p><p></p><p>We headed for Adelaide stopping off at Port Gawler, where a few <strong>Slender-billed Thornbills </strong>were found fairly easily in mid afternoon, following the advice of Trevor and Hazel who we met the day before. This was to look in the lusher saltbush by the channels after you pass the salt pans, just as the mangroves start to appear. Here also produced <strong>Australian Shoveler, Greenshank</strong>, etc.</p><p></p><p>We then birded till dusk at a small wetland area north of the city where <strong>Australasian Bittern</strong> has been seen recently. We had no luck with this but did get great views of <strong>Australian Crake</strong> (3). This is a great site, which also produced <strong>Yellow-billed</strong> and <strong>Royal Spoonbills</strong>, <strong>Little Grassbirds</strong>, <strong>Australian Reed Warblers, Hoary-headed Grebes, Red-kneed Dotterel </strong>etc. If you head south into Adelaide, turn west onto the A13, and then right after c2km onto magazine rd. Park after c100m and explore the wetland to the north .</p><p></p><p>We're now staying at our mate Dom's (Bristol Massive), where she's sorted us out with our 2nd bath of the year! She's got <strong>Purple-crowned Lorikeets</strong> in the garden, and other stuff's appearing that was more familiar at the start of the Oz part of this trip, eg<strong> New Holland Honeyeater</strong> and <strong>Red Wattlebird</strong>.</p><p></p><p>1177 Australian Shoveler</p><p>1178 <strong>SLENDER-BILLED THORNBILL</strong></p><p>1179 Hoary-headed Grebe</p><p>1180 Yellow-billed Spoonbill</p><p>1181 Little Grassbird</p><p>1182 <strong>AUSTRALIAN CRAKE</strong></p><p>1183 Purple-crowned Lorikeet</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Larry Sweetland, post: 1299675, member: 27337"] [b]Adelaide[/b] H- About as good as I can do with the Dotties is : head north out of Quorn on the main road to Hawker for c30km and look in the "fields" on the right. It's not far before an unsealed "tourist drive" road on the left. There were plenty of Oz Pipits and a few corellas in the dottie "field", and a large flock of corellas/Galahs in the field on the other side of the road just before the "tourist drive road". Chowie- Think I've missed my chance for many of the inland species we could have seen in the Alice area now. Too many directions to go in from here ! I just hope the birds are indeed somewhere, rather than the populations have totally crashed after so many years of drought. We headed for Adelaide stopping off at Port Gawler, where a few [B]Slender-billed Thornbills [/B]were found fairly easily in mid afternoon, following the advice of Trevor and Hazel who we met the day before. This was to look in the lusher saltbush by the channels after you pass the salt pans, just as the mangroves start to appear. Here also produced [B]Australian Shoveler, Greenshank[/B], etc. We then birded till dusk at a small wetland area north of the city where [B]Australasian Bittern[/B] has been seen recently. We had no luck with this but did get great views of [B]Australian Crake[/B] (3). This is a great site, which also produced [B]Yellow-billed[/B] and [B]Royal Spoonbills[/B], [B]Little Grassbirds[/B], [B]Australian Reed Warblers, Hoary-headed Grebes, Red-kneed Dotterel [/B]etc. If you head south into Adelaide, turn west onto the A13, and then right after c2km onto magazine rd. Park after c100m and explore the wetland to the north . We're now staying at our mate Dom's (Bristol Massive), where she's sorted us out with our 2nd bath of the year! She's got [B]Purple-crowned Lorikeets[/B] in the garden, and other stuff's appearing that was more familiar at the start of the Oz part of this trip, eg[B] New Holland Honeyeater[/B] and [B]Red Wattlebird[/B]. 1177 Australian Shoveler 1178 [B]SLENDER-BILLED THORNBILL[/B] 1179 Hoary-headed Grebe 1180 Yellow-billed Spoonbill 1181 Little Grassbird 1182 [B]AUSTRALIAN CRAKE[/B] 1183 Purple-crowned Lorikeet [/QUOTE]
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