Hi all, Several years ago I was on a property west of Wagga Wagga and my attention was drawn to two magpies screaming in a small eucalypt. A closer view revealed a lace monitor about 3 metres up the tree (I don’t know if the magpies had a nest there, the foliage was sparse but … Read more
Hi I traveled the Bruce Highway in the southern Sunshine Coast today and glimpsed some very dead roadkill. I am 90% sure it was a Yellow tailed black cockatoo. Traffic and commitments did not allow me to stop. If I am right, I am not too surprised as I have seen the birds swooping in … Read more
Hi all I will be very grateful for any photos of that pair of Grey Falcons that were hanging around a site NW of Alice Springs recently. Any format, size, quality will be fine. I’m currently working on sex and age-related plumage differences and with data deficiency being a notorious problem of the study, the … Read more
On 14/10 I saw what I think were an Arctic Tern and a Common Tern at Ricketts Point. This follows Chris Doughty’s record on one of each on Monday and Kim Croker’s great pics of one of each on Wednesday. All these sightings were in the afternoon but an Arctic Tern was also seen there … Read more
More big rains out here in the “arid” zone. Yulara recorded just over 70mm in 24hours and there were heavy falls north, west and east of Alice. The Stuart hwy was closed for some hours as the floodway north of the Palmer River was up around a metre, and the Lasseter hwy was closed for … Read more