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Clearly Buff-rumped Thornbill and Silveryes are not G-Gs. We keep walking up Mt Ainslie and now the LBBs start to appear. Crimson Rosellas then fly in, another from the parrot family I am told (as if I didn't know) (but still no G-Gs). Well next we saw some Maned Ducks in a tree and Shorty proceeded to tell me about ducks in trees (was he trying to distract me?). Next we see a pair of Eastern Rosellas and Shorty talks about them being parrots with red heads (in hindsight I wonder if he is already getting worried).
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In the same tree I see a pair of Laughing Kookaburras and Shorty sees the male inspect a tree hollow and tlaks about coming back again to check on them (he seems to be easily distracted). The 1st birds we see are Australian King Parrots and Shorty says this is a good sign as they are in the parrot family. On Saturday I pick Shorty him and he gives directions to Mt Ainslie Nature Reserve where he found the G-Gs last weekend and where 'they're always here'. We use the car park behind the Australain War Museum and cross the road to the NR. You might recall that he found them last weekend - when it was a Queensland weekend!!! - to be continuedĭuring the week we send PMs to arrange that Shorty will be the guide this weekend with priority attention, actually the only attention, on finding a G-G. So time is running out and this weeekend was my penultimate Canberra weekend and so I really challenged Shorty to find the G-Gs. But was Shorty able to find the G-Gs - no!! Alright he did get me a Crescent Honeyeater (lifer) and I now know where the Nude Beach is in Canberra (if I ever come back in summer). But was Shorty able to find the G-Gs - no! Then 2 weeks ago I guided him again for another lifer - White-fronted Chat, he had to get out of the car and take 5 steps this time. Yes, the Flame Robin and Australasian Pipit were easy lifers for him and then later that day I also got him a Hooded Robin (lifer for me also). This disappointment has been heightened because I have been out and about and discovering places without Shorty and 4 weeks ago I was able to guide him to a number of life birds, not only guide him there but the birds were waiting on the fence and in the paddock beside when I stoppped the car. Well we have been out on birding drives on a few weekends and to my disapppointment Shorty has not been able to guide me to the G-Gs. With that pic in mind I thought that I was onto a good thing for birding drives whilst in Canberra. I had a reply from RawShorty, you might remember his great Latham's Snipe pic from early this year. Before I arrived I had started a thread here asking for recommended birding spots from any Canberra residents. Early on I identiifed that the Gang-gang Cockatoo is the bird emblem of Canberra and recall that my current G-G pics are not good and therefore have been on the search for G-Gs since I arrived in April, as the staff and residents at Mountain View Centre can testify.
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I spend the 1st weeknd here (a Canberra weekend) and the next weekend in Brisbane (a Queensland weekend).
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I am currently past the 4 month mark of a 5 month placement in Canberra. Most readers of these columns would be aware of my rather nomadic life, as a relief manager in aged care.