Hi all, My daughter lives at Lowood in the Lockyer Valley. Today she had over 370mm of rain and her property is totally isolated but not flooded. She reported that the birds at her place are falling out of the trees dead, the birds she mentioned were Crested Pigeons, Noisy Miners and Magpies. Is this … Read more
Hi Peter et al, With all the realities of floods up in Qld, I note some communications from last March on this forum. You said : “Apparently the Darling will be in full flood due to the recent rainfalls, but the catchments that fill the Murray (southern NSW and northern VIC) hasn’t received the same … Read more
As you may have heard, it is been raining a bit in Southeast Queensland. Going by the BoM maps, some places have had 500 mm in the last 30 hours. What you mightn’t know is that the rain has been falling in a peculiar fashion for the last 6 hours. Basically there has been a … Read more
G’day folks, Tassie was a treat and a huge thanks to all who helped out with advice. Had nothing short of a spectacular couple of weeks of bird watching – Forty-spots, Shy Albatross, Dusky Robin, all the Honeyeaters, blah, blah, blah… fantastic. I’ll bung a full trip report up shortly. I have a couple of … Read more
T o Julian B, I was mainly just agreeing with Mike Carters comment on what can happen when interest is lost in the fauna and flora of overseas territories.I was just adding a short comment in agreement as I have read articles on Britains neglect of resposibility regarding their territories in the past. In general … Read more