A UK friend sent me the following link – interesting to see how raptors are faring there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12634698 Cheers – Trevor Ford. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Dear All I woke early today to see if the winds off SEQ were still strong; they were – it had been blowing 40-50 kts all night and similar late on Saturday. I decided to go to Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island and got the 5.55 ferry and hitched a lift with the local … Read more
The link was there in the email I got. Maybe people didn’t realise it was quite a long way down, inside a couple of levels of forwarded emails. The link is: http://www.mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html Peter Shute ________________________________________ From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Waanders [waanders.peter@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2011 3:35 PM To: Birding Aus Subject: … Read more
Hi all, I received the following update from Hawkesbury Environment Network earlier this week, but can anyone confirm this is correct: Further to our previous email we are pleased to advise that the Maritime Services Board will cancell the license they issued permitting speed boats on Bushells Lagoon and will furthermore erect signs at the … Read more
Hi again Just had a second-hand report of a crow’s nest on Magnetic Island that has 3 baby CBCs in it. That will be one busy pair of crows! I believe there is an unusual influx of CBCs and wompoos onto Magnetic Island at the moment, possibly because it wasn’t hammered badly by Yasi and … Read more