Good Friday in Sydney’s Royal National park

Hi all after sussing out the holiday weather forecast, it appeared that Friday was going to offer the best weather for Sydney, so we made the longish drive from Turramurra (in the city’s north) to the Royal National park (in the south) – a venue that I don’t get to often due to the distance. … Read more

Easter birding at Gluepot

Hi all, I thought I’d provide a short report of a full day birding trip to Birds Australia’s Gluepot Reserve in the South Australian Mallee on Saturday, 23 April. We departed Waikerie early in order to get to Gluepot around sunrise. The Reserve is famous for its concentrations of rare and threatened mallee bird species … Read more

Fatal Brush with Owl

Well that is assuming it was Noisy Miners. It says “native mynas”. Given that this is not an identifiable name, that could be all sorts of things or a mixture, e.g. Common (Indian) Mynas. But then again it is not a technical piece of writing and the error could have been made by the observer, … Read more

Is anyone going to the WTP on Tuesday morning?

If so, any chance I could tag along for a couple of hours? Just moved to Melbourne and waiting for my permit to come through, and wanted to see if the White-winged Black-Terns were still there… All the best, Ed Williams Seddon, VIC 3011 =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe … Read more

Topknots

Hi all, Just to add. I was at Nightcap National Park (in Northern NSW) 3 weeks ago and saw Topknot pigeons flocks of 100+. Cheers, Charles Hunter On 24/04/2011, at 1:00 PM, “Greg Roberts” wrote: > Regarding Andrew’s note about Topknot Pigeons. Over the past couple of weeks > I’ve seen unusually large numbers of … Read more