After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a lot of Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp Harriers near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice Springs last Friday I’d just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single Spotted Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice Springs this morning.
Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral – and recent sightings give me a reasonable degree of certainty – which I hope to confirm over the next few days.
Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
And I’ll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed Cuckoo reports in Alice Springs – or Darwin, Katherine and points in between – over the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus earlier today of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre…
Hi Bob,
I think I’d prefer “a rash of Spotted Harriers” 😉
Alan
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After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a lot of Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp Harriers near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice Springs last Friday I’d just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single Spotted Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice Springs this morning.
Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral – and recent sightings give me a reasonable degree of certainty – which I hope to confirm over the next few days.
Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
And I’ll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed Cuckoo reports in Alice Springs – or Darwin, Katherine and points in between – over the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus earlier today of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre…
that’ll do me Alan!
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