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Message: <blockquote data-quote="birdonawire" data-source="post: 1744513" data-attributes="member: 82457">i understand anstey's seedy reputation, but i have never in any way felt threatened up there, just the opposite, the kind of people you are thinking about dont go for healthy nerdy walks in cons parks checkin out the birds and flowers all that much lol but i know much creepier places to bird than ansteys, i find places like parra wirra to be VERY intimidating, and i'm big burly ugly 6 ft bloke, anywhere too close to elizabeth spooks me (or onkaparinga sp?) , i wont do any of them, i used to go out at night on my own astronomising all night all over the hills and countryside, sometimes with others, to some very lonely spots, far and wide, like pt gawler beach in the dark, with telescopes, (and also fishin before that come to think of i)t, places where they find dead bodies rolled up in carpet in the river sometimes, burnt out cars hoons with shotguns yahooing, fishing knives, rabbit and roo hunters barrelling up with guns and spotties pointed at us, dosser's camping out, you know, knock on wood, never had trouble, now say linear park closer to city, that would creep me out maybe?did ansteys tonight, 1.5 hr serious walk, not much about out of the ordinary, heard some white-browed scrubwrens mebbe, wasnt trying that hard tho.. no GW's, i see/hear brown thornbills up there a reasonable amount, and eastern spinebills, grey shrike-thrushes, big flocks of yellow tails, they're awesome to watch, a few other very nice ones, sometimes tho its really on .. but sometimes i have to call everything in, hard work, and that can get embarrassing if caught LOL  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> but i was bushwalker looooong before being a birder, thats what got me into a few years backhow cool about the lb corella's, 'm impressed its possible, first ive read of it!  i'll never look at a flock of sulphur crested so casually again! yeah all those in the parrot/galah/rosella/lorikeet ect. family travel with others at times it seems, i'm just finding that out this year big time, seeing rainbows, musks, and purple-crowneds in same group, if i see a little smaller shape, pretty good chance its a purple-crowned lorri ect.</blockquote>

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