Thanks Nick, caught up with a lifer at Eulo Bore on 31/03 when I saw the CBQT at the same site. The ridge line starts just short of 5km from the bore as it rises up from the flat and the bird was on top and at the start of the ridge line through to about 200m along the top from this point (approx 200metres off the road). I saw it poorly initially at the end (start?) of the ridge where I flushed it twice, then later after losing it in low scrub it ran across an old track at the top of the ridge line about 200m further east and not being able to find it again I got better views on my return to the same area after about 40 minutes of looking at other birds whilst it skulked around in the undergrowth trying to avoid me. It then flew back to where I had seen it first, so I left it in peace. I also headed out west on the Inaminka Road to the oil fields and the lower Cooper Creek in a vain search for the Grey Grass-wren (bitumen all the way, albeit a lot of single lane). The area still has plenty of water with 300mm flowing over the road in places where the channels cross it. Of course the place is very green with hundreds if not thousands of Black-tailed Native Hens enjoying the abundance of life the water has brought (walking in a shallow channel off the road I flushed at least 300!) . Pin in a haystack as far as Grey Grass-wren goes though! Rob Burgoyne > Message: 9 > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:24:07 +0000 > From: Nick Leseberg
… after checking the old ridgeline … for > Chestnut-breasted Quail-Thrush without success, found one on the low rise 5km > east of the bore on the northern side of the road… > > > Nick LesebergTropical Birdingwww.tropicalbirding.com ********************************
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