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Evening Grosbeaks Really Do Exist

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struck out on the “common feeder birds” But I’d never had much luck with irruptives in the east — no Common Redpolls , no Bohemian Waxwings , and my quest for a Pine Siskins was a Monty Python farce. The husks of box elder seeds littered the ground, neatly stripped and devoured.

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Birding beyond Brisbane

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The hinterland produced some amazing birds and we did find it hard work looking so high into the trees to find the Catbird that continuously called and the Wompoo Fruit Dove, but the leaf litter below also produced some well-disguised birds. The absolute highlight was when I heard leaf litter being thrown about.

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