My commentary - A day late

Mossy sounds crap these days eh?

Mark
Yellow - Coldplay

Not another fucking Coldplay song! Man, he's trying way too hard and he's singing the words weird. Oh Mark, that was crap.

Nat
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson

Nice song choice. Ah, and she's in her element here. A++

Hehe, I like Dicko. Marcia on the other hand still shits me to tears.

Carl
It's Alright With Me - Harry Connick Jr.

This song is slowed down? Crikey. Well, that was different. Not sure what I thought of it.

Jacob
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

I LOVE singing this song at karaoke. Thing is, I originally discovered it because Marty sang it in Idol '04. He's got violins and backing vocals, hardly stripped back. I hate looking at Jacob, but he sounded good this week.

Matt
The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice

Hrm, think he's trying to get the Damien Leith followers by singing this song? I actually have never heard the original of this. Ooh, cello points. Ack, I think I was just deafened by the screaming 13 year olds. Yes, this boy has talent, no doubt.

Kyle makes me feel dirty. *shudder*

Daniel
I Was Made For Loving You - Kiss

This is an "I want to have sex with you" song, not a love song. Open your eyes goddamnit! Not a bad arrangement.

*sob* I remember when touchdowns used to be special. Now he throws them around like cheap candy or something.

Benji
Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap

I wish I knew the original of this song. It's interesting. I liked it better once it sped up a little.

Let me guess, Tarisai is going to sing Kissing You. I've no doubt that she'll nail it too.

Tarisai
Kissing You - Des'ree

Her accent is bizarre. No matter where she ends up in the competition she will make records and people will buy them, because even if she has nothing else she has a heck of a voice.

Marty
Open Your Eyes - Snow Patrol

Marty is a curious entity. That's really all I have to say. Is that song meant to sound like it's about to speed up all the time? Okay, it wasn't meant to do that.

My commentary - A day late

Mossy sounds crap these days eh?

Mark
Yellow - Coldplay

Not another fucking Coldplay song! Man, he's trying way too hard and he's singing the words weird. Oh Mark, that was crap.

Nat
Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson

Nice song choice. Ah, and she's in her element here. A++

Hehe, I like Dicko. Marcia on the other hand still shits me to tears.

Carl
It's Alright With Me - Harry Connick Jr.

This song is slowed down? Crikey. Well, that was different. Not sure what I thought of it.

Jacob
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

I LOVE singing this song at karaoke. Thing is, I originally discovered it because Marty sang it in Idol '04. He's got violins and backing vocals, hardly stripped back. I hate looking at Jacob, but he sounded good this week.

Matt
The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice

Hrm, think he's trying to get the Damien Leith followers by singing this song? I actually have never heard the original of this. Ooh, cello points. Ack, I think I was just deafened by the screaming 13 year olds. Yes, this boy has talent, no doubt.

Kyle makes me feel dirty. *shudder*

Daniel
I Was Made For Loving You - Kiss

This is an "I want to have sex with you" song, not a love song. Open your eyes goddamnit! Not a bad arrangement.

*sob* I remember when touchdowns used to be special. Now he throws them around like cheap candy or something.

Benji
Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap

I wish I knew the original of this song. It's interesting. I liked it better once it sped up a little.

Let me guess, Tarisai is going to sing Kissing You. I've no doubt that she'll nail it too.

Tarisai
Kissing You - Des'ree

Her accent is bizarre. No matter where she ends up in the competition she will make records and people will buy them, because even if she has nothing else she has a heck of a voice.

Marty
Open Your Eyes - Snow Patrol

Marty is a curious entity. That's really all I have to say. Is that song meant to sound like it's about to speed up all the time? Okay, it wasn't meant to do that.

Copy/pasted from birdlovers. Cheyne's Beach

I'd been looking forward to an opportunity to visit this spot for a while. For one it's on the wild, southern coast of Western Australia. Scenery which I find so beautiful as to be almost spiritual.

It's also the place to get the "Big Three" rare birds in Western Australia - Noisy Scrub-bird, Western Whipbird and Rufous Bristlebird.

All three birds have limited range, are drably coloured and are endangered. They also all possess very loud and distinctive voices and the ability to hide in thick scrub barely metres away from you while remaining invisible.

Every morning pretty much everyone in the birding group was up and about before 6am, creeping through the coastal heath behind the caravan park where we stayed. I heard all three of the target birds after not too long, but the only one I managed to see all morning was the Western Bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris), and then it was only a brief glimpse as it came into the open on a bush, sang for a bit, then disappeared again.

Not long after that another birdo and I were admiring the Southern Right Whales who had also decided the bay would be a nice place to stay for a few days. They were giving a wonderful breaching display. About a minute later some others told us that a Noisy Scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus) had run across the road about a metre behind us! At first we didn't believe them, but then it called from the bushes beside the road teasingly.

A little later I got my first glimpse of the Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus), a bird I'd been trying to see for a long while. I managed to see it twice more before the weekend was up. These are a lot shier than thier close cousins the fairy-wrens, who seem only too keen to bounce out into the open and show off.

Also heard was the Western Whipbird, which was the most elusive bird of the weekend. Some got a look at this species but I still have only heard them call.

This morning I put in a last ditch effort to see the Scrub-bird and/or Whipbird. Once again, I heard all three, including a Bristlebird that was very close. Apparently one Scrub-bird makes it way down beside the entrance road to the caravan park and crosses the road along the bay in the morning. This morning I heard the bird right next to the road, it can't have been more than 2 metres from me, the call was deafening! I followed the calling down the road slowly - trying to keep ahead of the bird so I could see it when it crossed the road. I eventually got to the road during one of the pauses between it calling, still sure I was ahead of it and about to see it scuttle over the road. Then the little bugger called again - already in the thick scrub on the other side of the road. Oh well.

All in all it was a lovely weekend. The location was superb, the weather fantastic, and most of the birds were quite obliging. I got over 50 species per day. One morning I counted the calls of 8 species before I even left my tent. If you're ever in the area, take a visit.

Copy/pasted from birdlovers. Cheyne's Beach

I'd been looking forward to an opportunity to visit this spot for a while. For one it's on the wild, southern coast of Western Australia. Scenery which I find so beautiful as to be almost spiritual.

It's also the place to get the "Big Three" rare birds in Western Australia - Noisy Scrub-bird, Western Whipbird and Rufous Bristlebird.

All three birds have limited range, are drably coloured and are endangered. They also all possess very loud and distinctive voices and the ability to hide in thick scrub barely metres away from you while remaining invisible.

Every morning pretty much everyone in the birding group was up and about before 6am, creeping through the coastal heath behind the caravan park where we stayed. I heard all three of the target birds after not too long, but the only one I managed to see all morning was the Western Bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris), and then it was only a brief glimpse as it came into the open on a bush, sang for a bit, then disappeared again.

Not long after that another birdo and I were admiring the Southern Right Whales who had also decided the bay would be a nice place to stay for a few days. They were giving a wonderful breaching display. About a minute later some others told us that a Noisy Scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus) had run across the road about a metre behind us! At first we didn't believe them, but then it called from the bushes beside the road teasingly.

A little later I got my first glimpse of the Southern Emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus), a bird I'd been trying to see for a long while. I managed to see it twice more before the weekend was up. These are a lot shier than thier close cousins the fairy-wrens, who seem only too keen to bounce out into the open and show off.

Also heard was the Western Whipbird, which was the most elusive bird of the weekend. Some got a look at this species but I still have only heard them call.

This morning I put in a last ditch effort to see the Scrub-bird and/or Whipbird. Once again, I heard all three, including a Bristlebird that was very close. Apparently one Scrub-bird makes it way down beside the entrance road to the caravan park and crosses the road along the bay in the morning. This morning I heard the bird right next to the road, it can't have been more than 2 metres from me, the call was deafening! I followed the calling down the road slowly - trying to keep ahead of the bird so I could see it when it crossed the road. I eventually got to the road during one of the pauses between it calling, still sure I was ahead of it and about to see it scuttle over the road. Then the little bugger called again - already in the thick scrub on the other side of the road. Oh well.

All in all it was a lovely weekend. The location was superb, the weather fantastic, and most of the birds were quite obliging. I got over 50 species per day. One morning I counted the calls of 8 species before I even left my tent. If you're ever in the area, take a visit.