Hi everyone, Just updating you all with my travels along the Birdsville Track and correcting the email address I included in my last email.
Sharon Oldfield of Cowarie Station (51km ne of Mungerannie) can contacted on cowarie@activ8.net.au. She would be best to contact about conditions along the track, especially access to her property, which is not on the Birdsville Track, but an offshoot of it.
It seems I left just in time to get out. I left on Wednesday 1st September and it rained about 58mm at Etadunna and 80mm at Marree the next day. The roads were closed again and there probably was rain there again this week, as there has been at where I am currently based – at Mt Skinner Station about 200km ne of Alice Springs.
On the way out of Etadunna I found a large flock of Inland Dotterels (60+) – a sight worth stopping for. I had only seen them as individuals or pairs before. I capped off my trip there quite nicely! There were also more Orange and Crimson Chats at the same stop. Birds were every where.
They were much scarcer the other side of Lake Eyre on the way to Coober Pedy. It didn’t seem to have had as much rain as the eastern side. This was confirmed by a couple of birders I met at Erldunda who had travelled up the Oodnadatta Track to Oodnadatta.
Cheers for now
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