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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
wrap up for the year: I didn't see anything new after the Sydney trip -- but then I wasn't really out looking, being a bit more preoccupied with not dying in earthquakes -- so the bird total for the year was a low 131, of which 22 were lifers (all from New Caledonia). Mammal total was, er...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
25 November Last day in Sydney. First thing in the morning I caught the ferry across to the Botanic Gardens. There were tree martins flitting around the trees in which the flying foxes were roosting. I was actually looking for powerful owls which can be seen there from time to time (they feed...- Chlidonias
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24 November So today was the designated bird day, but it was a bit of a failure. I was going to the Bicentennial Park on the instructions of a book called "Sydney Birds And Where To Find Them" which said there were often red-necked avocets there. I've never seen a red-necked avocet and its one...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
23 November a bit of a different weekend away for me. Taronga Zoo in Sydney (Australia) has just put a long-beaked echidna on display. I'm very unlikely to ever get to New Guinea where this monotreme is found and there are only three outside of that country. One is in Moscow, which I'm probably...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
26 October well.....I haven't exactly been finding new birds left right and centre since coming back from New Caledonia have I? However this weekend I headed southwards to the little town of Geraldine as I had discovered that there was a resident population of the endemic long-tailed bats...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
15 August A day-trip to Mt. Koghis (once again: bus then walk/hitch for 8km while trying to avoid vicious dogs...) was my last chance to find two very common endemic birds which had as yet eluded me, the New Caledonian cuckoo-shrike and the white-bellied goshawk, but neither were to be found...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
14 August I spent all day at the Noumea Zoo today getting photos of the endemic birds (the wild ones being a bit too unhelpful in this regard). The zoo is also the best place to see the local subspecies of nankeen night heron, which nest plentifully around the lakes in the bamboo and eucalyptus...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
11 August this morning as I was walking along the park's main road towards the Grand Kaori trail, a harsh call attracted my attention and a large black bird shot across the road and disappeared. I knew what it had to be because I'd already seen all the other large black birds the island had to...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
10 August although Riviere Bleue is closed on Mondays I took the Yate bus yesterday (Monday) to the turn-off to the park. There's only one bus a day to Yate and it doesn't leave till 11.30am, so I figured it would make sense to go there the day before and camp at the nearby site of Les Bois du...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
8 August I got back to Noumea quite easily today with a ride from near the Refuge to La Foa with a gentleman who had five words of English to go with my five words of French, and then a further ride to Noumea with a huge dreadlocked Kanak who spoke not a jot of English but did set a new...- Chlidonias
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7 August it rained and rained and rained all of the day, so I sat in my tent and did absolutely nothing. It got so bad that all the other campers packed up and drove off, until all that were left were me and an Australian/New Caledonian family. That night their tent caved in and freezing water...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
6 August today was spent at the Parc des Grandes Fougeres. I gave up on the imaginary bird known as the New Caledonian grassbird and instead scored with New Caledonian flycatcher, Melanesian cuckoo-shrike, streaked fantail and yellow-bellied robin, none of which were imaginary at all. Really...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
5 August There's no bus specifically to La Foa anymore but most of the buses heading north pass through there so its not a problem and there are several options for times. No tourist travels by bus in Noumea, they all hire cars, and it soon became obvious why - the buses don't go anywhere near...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
4 August A storm blew through in the night and so, as I'd heard that Riviere Bleue closes up when it rains, I booked a bus instead for tomorrow to get me to Farino. For today I visited the Aquarium and then took a wander in the drizzle around the Ouen Toro forest park in the south of the town...- Chlidonias
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3 August off for my only overseas trip of the year, to sunny New Caledonia, courtesy of some cheapish airfares. The plane was delayed in Auckland due to fog (they couldn't find the plane....) so I arrived in New Caledonia later than anticipated. First bird of the trip was, as may have been...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
30 June #70 a female ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus at the Styx Mill Reserve. The list keeps rocketing onwards......|^|- Chlidonias
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6 June a bunch of us headed back over to Akaroa to see the Hector's dolphins again today; nothing new on the boat ride, bird-wise - some white-fronted, black-fronted and Caspian terns, spotted and pied shags, and singletons of Cape petrel, southern Buller's albatross and NZ white-capped...- Chlidonias
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5 May so I did get over to Akaroa this week. I was going to go a couple of weeks ago and go out on the boat but never got round to organising it -- then saw on the local news that a blue whale had been seen from the Black Cat that very day! Talk about gutted!! I had to wait a couple more weeks...- Chlidonias
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7 April 6) House mouse Mus musculus they come inside as the weather starts getting colder in autumn. I knew there were some in the house because other people were seeing them, but I was waiting till I got a look at one so I could add it to the year list before I started trapping them :D- Chlidonias
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24 March utilising a day off work when I unusually had nothing else to do, I popped over to Lyttleton Harbour and took a wee ride on the Black Cat Wildlife Cruise. Honestly, not much was seen bird-wise outside of the usual shags and gulls apart for a northern giant petrel (which I'd already...- Chlidonias
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9 March February was an almost total bust, with the only bird going on the list being the glossy ibis. However pelagic trips are good for increasing the year list and simultaneously emptying the stomach, so I headed up to Kaikoura in an effort to add some for March. Sadly the boat ride was...- Chlidonias
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Chlidonias' 2010 list of things
17 February my list isn't exactly rocketing upwards, but the regular glossy ibis returned to Travis Wetland from Australia last week so I went along to tick it off. He's a bit earlier this year than previous (usually he appears in March sometime). Glossy ibis of course aren't a normal NZ bird...- Chlidonias
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27 January getting a bit sick of not having NZ shoveller on my year list yet, I headed this morning to the Travis Wetland where they are normally abundant. Not today, naturally. There were a few around but nowhere near the numbers there usually are. I'm not sure where they're all hiding. There...- Chlidonias
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20 January this weekend I did get out to Sumner after all, where a visit to the Charlesworth Reserve by the estuary provided me with a flock of roosting godwits and banded dotterels as well as a couple of terns and a pied shag which is something I should by rights have got on the very first day...- Chlidonias
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13 January Another weekend but only a couple of hours to spare. I was going to go to both the Styx Mill Reserve and the coastal suburb of Sumner to find a scattering more of the common local birds but I never made it to Sumner in the end. A surprise at Styx Mill was a (presumably confused)...- Chlidonias
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