I spent my Christmas at Tin Can Bay, on the coast north of Brisbane, off Gympie. I popped down to nearby Rainbow Beach mid-morning on the 27th for a swim with my little boy and was somewhat surprised to see a Lesser Frigatebird soaring over the foreshore. No doubt blown in by storms – the … Read more
Hi All To my eye the petrel photographed by Jack Shick off LHI looks like a typical Cook’s Petrel you would photograph off Little Barrier Island. The relatively pale grey head considering the light conditions and extensive black smudge line under the eye and extensive white supercilium matching in patterning photographs of Cook’s taken in … Read more
Hi everyone, Ruth and I are really keen to find a Baillon’s Crake in Victoria before this year is out. If you know of any recent (last few weeks) sightings, can you please let me know! Other species we have a slim possibility of seeing would be Terek Sandpiper and Painted Snipe, both of which … Read more
On Christmas morning we headed off bright and early for Sunset Country. A quick stop at Lake Tyrell near Sealake to look for Crimson Chats yielded nothing. Similarly, a run along the road to the north of Hattah to look for Red-backed Kingfishers also came up empty. Not to be discouraged we headed for Murray-Sunset … Read more
Seems anyone interested may have already seen this by now, but I have benefited from the generosity of other folks’ postings on this one so it seems only right to mention that it was still present this morning (28/12/10) until about 1100 when we had finished looking at it in number 7 pond at the … Read more