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VicTwitch 2010 – Last gasp

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Happy New Year everyone! I’ll write a more complete update a little later, but after seeing the Terek Sandpiper at the Western Treatment Plant yesterday, we decided to spend our last few hours looking in various crake spots around Melbourne for Baillon’s Crake. Conditions were almost unbearable at 44 degrees C and very windy. We … Read more

VicTwitch 2010 – Terek Sandpiper

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We just tracked down the Terek Sandpiper at the Western Treatment Plant! That’s our 388th bird for our VicTwitch 2010. The bird is currently on mudflats to the north-east of Little River just to the west of a stone breakwater. GPS 37 59.983S 144 37.227E Sorry I don’t have a map in the car so … Read more

Terek Sandpiper – Western Treatment Plant, Victoria

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Hi birders, If anyone is going to WTP today, and comes across the Terek, could you please call me on 0419516669? Thanks! Paul Dodd Docklands, Victoria Sent from my iPhone============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ==============================

VicTwitch 2010 – closing hours

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About 25 hours to go for our VicTwitch 2010. Yesterday we drove from Ouyen to Murrayville, then south along the famous Murrayville Track into Big Desert. For the first part of the journey we looked for Crimson Chats, but had no luck. For the southern part of the Murrayville Track, and then west along the … Read more