Day: January 14, 2011

Frank Antram,Sue Lashko and myself made the trip from Canberra last night to spend the day at werribee today. Melbourne certainly put on the weather for us with relentless driving rain for the morning, becoming almost tropical in the afternoon. We had the Ruff in the bag within 30 minutes of arriving, in the t-section … Read more

Hi folks, Jack has quickly knocked up a Wildairies report with all necessary info on the Black-tailed Gull in Gladstone, central Qld. http://aussiebirding.wildiaries.com/trips/10430 As Mike and Trevor said, this bird is easily twitchable at the boat ramp at the Gladstone Yacht Club (23 50 17 151 15 08). When not at the ramp it apparently … Read more

From: David James Subject: Re: RE: [Birding-Aus] Re: Cocos & Christmas Island Rarities To: “Birding-aus” Received: Friday, 14 January, 2011, 6:42 PM I wish I could share John Leonard’s gratefulness to the Australian Government for their conservation and management of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories. Unfortunately (and no offence intended to John), my experiences do not allow … Read more

Today I observed 65+ SWDs with 30+ Burdekin Ducks, a few greenshanks and masked lapwings, 2 common sandpipers and a marsh sandpiper.  Interestingly most of the birds were in the paddock where the old pond used to be which now has a decent puddle courtesy of the rain and a lot of vegetation.  A week ago … Read more