Herdsman and stuff

I met a guy from Brisbane this morning who is holidaying over here. He posts to the BirdsAus e-mail list and is a birder around my age *dies of shock*.

Anyway, we first went down to Pelican Point to try and find the wader roost, but even though the signs imply you can walk through the conservation area, all the gates are shut and locked so we couldn't see much at all. A flock of red-necked avocets, soem fairy terns, one common sandpiper. Saw a juvenille fan-tailed cuckoo in the carpark.

We then went to Herdsman because I knew that would be good and also it's "my turf" for birding. He'd never seen a blue-billed ducks before - Herdsman always has plenty and he'd also never seen great-crested grebes up close, again the lake was obliging. Got two new birds for the Herdsman list - little egret (saw about 3) and white-winged triller, which brings the lake list to 74 species now.

There were actually rufous night herons in the melaleucas on the other side of the lake from the Gould League centre. I'd never seen them anywhere but the clump near the centre before. And the dredger has been used!! It's most definetly moved a bit and there are NO cormorants on it now. I'm a little disgusted, there was a huge great cormorant nesting colony there that I was going to show my guest. I wonder where those poor birds have gone now.

And again, we mistook female blue-bills for freckled ducks.

I wore sunscreen and it was cloudy out there but my shoulders are pink anyway.

( Memism )

Herdsman and stuff

I met a guy from Brisbane this morning who is holidaying over here. He posts to the BirdsAus e-mail list and is a birder around my age *dies of shock*.

Anyway, we first went down to Pelican Point to try and find the wader roost, but even though the signs imply you can walk through the conservation area, all the gates are shut and locked so we couldn't see much at all. A flock of red-necked avocets, soem fairy terns, one common sandpiper. Saw a juvenille fan-tailed cuckoo in the carpark.

We then went to Herdsman because I knew that would be good and also it's "my turf" for birding. He'd never seen a blue-billed ducks before - Herdsman always has plenty and he'd also never seen great-crested grebes up close, again the lake was obliging. Got two new birds for the Herdsman list - little egret (saw about 3) and white-winged triller, which brings the lake list to 74 species now.

There were actually rufous night herons in the melaleucas on the other side of the lake from the Gould League centre. I'd never seen them anywhere but the clump near the centre before. And the dredger has been used!! It's most definetly moved a bit and there are NO cormorants on it now. I'm a little disgusted, there was a huge great cormorant nesting colony there that I was going to show my guest. I wonder where those poor birds have gone now.

And again, we mistook female blue-bills for freckled ducks.

I wore sunscreen and it was cloudy out there but my shoulders are pink anyway.

( Memism )

Still to do

Ring St. John Ambulance and figure what time to do the course
Remove table from my car
Package pony
Write cover letter for BBO job

Still to do

Ring St. John Ambulance and figure what time to do the course
Remove table from my car
Package pony
Write cover letter for BBO job

You are pretty much just a big doughnut

It's summery (despite the fact that it's raining at the moment).

Ya know what that means?

ANKLETS!!

I need to make more jewellery for myself. Nothing I had in my already huge collection really matches.

I am such a girl sometimes.

I am about to eat sushi. Yes AGAIN. I like sushi.

Later

Well Warwick and I got sushi. I had a 25% off voucher. The guy taking orders seemed a little out of it. I didn't get quite what I ordered (a tuna roll instead of California and cucumber when I asked for none), but I did have a complicated order (6 pack of sushi - 2 chicken, 2 prawn, one California, one salmon).

BUT

Some other guy brought our order out and didn't charge us.

Hehehe, free sushi is even better. :)

You are pretty much just a big doughnut

It's summery (despite the fact that it's raining at the moment).

Ya know what that means?

ANKLETS!!

I need to make more jewellery for myself. Nothing I had in my already huge collection really matches.

I am such a girl sometimes.

I am about to eat sushi. Yes AGAIN. I like sushi.

Later

Well Warwick and I got sushi. I had a 25% off voucher. The guy taking orders seemed a little out of it. I didn't get quite what I ordered (a tuna roll instead of California and cucumber when I asked for none), but I did have a complicated order (6 pack of sushi - 2 chicken, 2 prawn, one California, one salmon).

BUT

Some other guy brought our order out and didn't charge us.

Hehehe, free sushi is even better. :)

Invisible people

Where the fuck was everyone tonight?

I had the impression that it was Sami's 18th there and there would be loads of people.

Sami didn't even show up. It was just me, Matt and Warwick.

I did what was possibly my best rendition of Somewhere Only We Know too. And I finally sang Lightning Crashes, I should do it more often as it's a crowd pleaser. The cueing for the lyrics is completely stuffed (resulting in 99.99% of the people that sing stuffing up badly) and there's a bar missing from the solo, which throws me off.

Invisible people

Where the fuck was everyone tonight?

I had the impression that it was Sami's 18th there and there would be loads of people.

Sami didn't even show up. It was just me, Matt and Warwick.

I did what was possibly my best rendition of Somewhere Only We Know too. And I finally sang Lightning Crashes, I should do it more often as it's a crowd pleaser. The cueing for the lyrics is completely stuffed (resulting in 99.99% of the people that sing stuffing up badly) and there's a bar missing from the solo, which throws me off.