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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 1775686" data-attributes="member: 83206">It's always a great feeling to get a lifer. I saw the brown-headed's first and though 'oh great, another LBB' (little brown bird). And they wouldn't sit still! Fortunately, I think the bird I saw first was a young one, and fairly indistinct in it's brown-headedness, and the second bird I saw, had a darker head and I noticed that the pale throat colour, curved up around the neck a tiny bit, it seemed a very distinct shape for it to make. The dark head reminded me of some of the honeyeaters I had seen in the book, so then I just looked through and there it was. The white-naped's were easier, that red eye ring is a dead give-away. It's just a great birding spot! I'm going to have to return much more frequently to see if there's any other lifers to be found.I was talking to some local people about goldfinches, and they said that they used to be a lot more common and they hardly see them anyway, which I guess is a good thing. I guess a few too many years of drought knocked their numbers back or something. A pretty little bird though.Regarding sandy creek, I pretty much walked the whole place. I didn't even see a RBE, I heard ONE, for about 2 seconds, but that's it. I think I just picked a bad day. I'll have to make another trip down there, and this time, I won't drive past the car park and then wonder where it was <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> It's easy to miss though. The southern carpark at least. I believe there's one on the north side too.The corellas again! That's amazing. What a real treat that is. Do they call much? I know little corellas are noisy and have a very distinct call. Are the LBC's similar in their call?Todays birding has consisted of an Emu that was trotting along the road on my way to work and the common suburbanites. Two days ago, I actually nearly ran over some helmeted guinea fowl! That was a surpise. Definitely someone's birds though, they both had large white patches on their chests and definitely just wandering around, just like someone who has chickens I guess, but guinea fowl instead! I certainly wasn't expecting it though, that's for sure.</blockquote>

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