More Japanese friends

Following on from Mike’s posting, those birders who know well-known Japanese birders and sometime Oz visitors Otani Chikara and Koji Tagi will be pleased to hear that they are fine, as is Take Matsuo and his wife at minshuku Furen and Chris Cook from the Japan Times in Tokyo. Good news for sure. Phil & … Read more

Holidays and recent posts

Hello all, I have just spent a few weeks away visiting south west Victoria. As a result I had quite a few emails to download and read through. It was great to catch up with species such as Crescent Honeyeater, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo and Gang-gang Cockatoos and others about the Grampians and then species such as … Read more

Our Japanese friends

Folk that knew Ted (Tadao) Shimba, author of ‘A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan’ when he lived in Australia for many years, will be relieved to know that he and his family are safe following the devastating earthquake and resultant tsunami. They live far from the affected area. Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay … Read more

sunshine coast pelagic

The inaugural Sunshine Coast pelagic has been rescheduled to Saturday March 26 after mechanical failure aborted our first effort yesterday. Please let me know if you are interested. Cost is $120. Greg Roberts =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: … Read more

MELBOURNE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET AND GREET/FREE WORKSHOP

I would love to run something similar in other states if the interest was there Carl!! Unfortunately the workshops would not be free as I would have to cover travel and accommodation costs etc. This particular workshop is to help me get the hang of giving workshops to larger numbers of people (which is a … Read more