birding northern Victoria

New Year greetings to you all, To start the new year off with a bang I thought I’d head across to the northern plains and explore the sights around Terrick Terrick, Mount Hope and surrounds. Having read Rohan Clarke’s recent post I thought I’d walk some grassland country first before the day got too hot … Read more

Birding in Uganda

Hello everyone – and a Happy Birding New Year, I have just returned from an 18-day birding tour in Uganda with group of 10 friends (I hasten to mention that I retired from the tour business 6 years ago – I pay for my trips nowadays!). We travelled with Herbert Byaruhanga of Bird Uganda Safaris, … Read more

WA Twitchathon 2010 – Final Results

Hi all, Below are the final results for the WA Twitchathon held on the weekend of the 11/12 December. The perpetual trophies and prize for best bird will be awarded at the BAWA meeting on January 24th (held at Bold Park Eco-centre, starting 7.30pm). I’m also working through to produce a list of all species … Read more

Darwin Area Trip Report 26-30th Dec 2010

A pleasure, Mark. Happy New Year. Denise on 1/1/11 12:57 PM, Mark Stanley at markjstanley@gmail.com wrote: > I’ve just returned from a very pleasant birding trip to the Top End. > The weather was fantastic – mostly cloudy, with refreshing breezes, > the odd cooling shower, virtually no flies, few and not very troubling > … Read more

Darwin Area Trip Report 26-30th Dec 2010

I’ve just returned from a very pleasant birding trip to the Top End. The weather was fantastic – mostly cloudy, with refreshing breezes, the odd cooling shower, virtually no flies, few and not very troubling mossies. All in all I saw 154 species, 52 new for the year,12 lifers and an Aussie tick (Little Ringed … Read more