Hi everyone, I’ve just got back from an excellent double-twitch with Nigel Jackett, netting both the wigeon and the Franklin’s. Nigel has some video of both which hopefully we will be able to give links to, but in the meantime I provide an update (particularly for anyone heading up tomorrow!) We arrived at Carnarvon about 7.15am this morning and headed straight for Chinaman Pool, and found the wigeon about 100m to the left of the ‘carpark’ at the end of Marmion St. Good views with bins, very good with scope. See also Richard’s update After a quick refuel and stopping in to vote (!), we headed back for Cervantes to try for the Franklin’s Gull, arriving about 4.15 this arvo. We met Robyn Pickering and her son Morgan, who had seen the gull in the small park near the Pinnacles caravan park in Cervantes. This park is at the corner of Aragon and Catalonia Streets according to Google Maps. After a bit of a search, we found the gull again in the park where it proved fairly co-operati ve, still there when we left at about 5.30. As an added bonus, we picked up 600+ Fork-tailed (or Pacific depending on your taxonomy) Swifts between Overlander and Billabong Roadhouses on the way back (more details for you later Mike :D), mostly in two large flocks (one 200+, the other 400+). Robyn and Morgan also had a small flock (30) south of Cervantes, and 10 overhead where the gull was hanging around (though they were gone by the time we arrived) Cheers,John ===============================
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