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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1315813" data-attributes="member: 27337">EDIT: replace the words Pied Cormorant in the "and also seen" section of the last post with the words : Idiot pommie tourists comes to Tassie, bins ablazin', gets half-arsed view of big-looking black and white cormorant, writes Pied Cormorant in notebook (it's the common big one innit? and who cares?), writes Pied Cormorant in trip report, notices that all other black and white ones seen subsequently are Black-faced Cormorant, looks at distribution map in field guide. CLANG. Oh well. What's wrong with being a stringer eh? Some of my best mates are stringers. Is it true there are now stringer therapy groups in the UK where you come to accept your inner stringer, and perform therapeutic exercises like standing in the middle of a phalanx of scopes at the next big twitch, wait until the most anxious bird-out-of-view moment, and shout out "I'M A STRINGER!!!". Well maybe not. Uh? Oh yeah, the trip report.After the last report entry we went to the seabird colony in the evening at Bruny Neck. The weather was seriously grim, and sent us home early, but we saw lots of Short-tailed Shearwaters and a few Little Penguins wobbling up the beach. On the drive back to the camping area a Little Penguin walked across theroad in front of the van.Next morning  bad weather caused a sluggish start, but we headed to the top of North Bruny I about 10ish and parked about 4km before Dennes Point, at an obvious parking area on the right, by a gate marked private. This was at the start of where good tall eucalypts line the road. I found a Forty-spotted Pardalote within the first 100m or so, feeding quietly in a tall roadside tree, but watched it for a long time before it allowed good enough views. Real neck-strainer this one, and a scope would be handy here. Both other Pardalotes were also present, the immature Spotted Pardalotes, particularly, being perhaps confusable given a poor view. (thanks for the Maria Island tip though Stuart, I was thinking of going there until I read that the Cape Barren Geese there are introduced.). This area also produced a couple of Swift Parrots.After leaving Bruny I, we headed south to the southernmost point you can get to in Australia by (unsealed) road and spent the night there. This morning we were woken up by the sound of a Black Currawong walking on the van roof. We did the walk to Fisherman's point, pasing a superb Hooded Plover on the way, and got to the point. There was a little gathering of Pacific and Kelp Gulls off the point, the furthest away being a Kelp Gull. This Kelp Gull has the honour of being the bird that was furthest away from the Redwing heard on the doorstep at the start of the trip, that we've been able to get to without flying. Sadly, Bristol to the bottom of Tasmania is all we've been able to manage.1234 FORTY-SPOTTED PARDALOTEStuart (or anyone):- you didn't see any Tawny-crowned Honeyeaters while on Tassie by any chance did you? I still need a good site for them.Chowie:- The camping spots were just camping spots I'm afraid, but there were a couple of places to stay. Would be hard to cover Bruny Island without your own transport as it's pretty big.</blockquote>

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