点评:During the first week of spring 2026 our party of three had the great good fortune to spend 12 hours with veteran birding expert Simon Starr from Firetail BirdwatchingTours.
Simon seems to have developed a sixth sense about where birds will be, whether they will come down from the canopy and if so where to put the scope. He showed us 93 species many of which were firsts for all of us. We had excellent views of all birds. These included recently arrived migratory shorebirds, resident shorebirds, forest birds and grassland species. He shared his extensive knowledge of bird behaviour with so many beginning to display and develop mating plumage. It was an exhilarating day with a cornucopia of bird varieties and newly shared knowledge.
We were well fed and watered and we were left with smiles on our faces and some wonderful photos.
A day later Simon sent us a list of species we had seen with links to a photo for each one from ebird. This has been a very useful way to consolidate our new knowledge.
We can’t recommend Simon from Firetail Birdwatching Tours highly enough.
翻译:2026年春季的第一周,我们三人有幸与来自Firetail BirdwatchingTours的资深观鸟专家西蒙·斯塔尔共度了12个小时。
西蒙似乎拥有一种“第六感”,能准确判断鸟类会出现在何处、它们是否会从树冠层飞下来,以及该把望远镜架在哪儿。他带我们观测到了93种鸟类,其中很多都是我们所有人生平第一次见到。我们得以清楚地欣赏到这些鸟类的风采,其中包括刚刚迁徙抵达的滨鸟。当地的滨鸟、森林鸟类以及草原鸟类。他向众多刚开始长出求偶羽或开始发育求偶羽的观鸟初学者们分享了自己丰富的鸟类行为学知识。那是令人心潮澎湃的一天,各种鸟类纷纷现身,新知识也源源不断地被分享出来。
我们饱餐饮水,脸上洋溢着笑容,还拍下了许多精彩的照片。
一天后,西蒙发给我们一份我们所观察到的鸟种清单,并附上了eBird网站上每种鸟类的照片链接。这是一种非常有效的方式来巩固我们新学到的知识。
我们极力推荐Firetail观鸟之旅的西蒙。