The next SOSSA trip is 25th June 2011 and there are a few places still available. There was a Grey-backed Storm Petrel on the SOSSA May trip, the first in many years and Bullers Albatrosses were around in good numbers, so anything could turn up. SOSSA is a not-for-profit organisation, with trip surpluses being used … Read more
Hi All, My wife asked me to post this to you wonderful lot. She’s after guides for both Wildflowers, and Trees — native and non-native. I told her I thought any book covering all of Aus would be either too big or would cover too little. So regional guides would also be good. We live … Read more
Gooday all While birding at Round Hill NR recently I learnt two things. One, when crashing through and climbing under and over the endless thick mallee scrub with bruised shins, scratched face and collar scooping up endless handfuls of sticks into my shirt, just stop, back off and follow the wife, she always finds the … Read more
A big weekend for seawatching at Pt Lookout! Saturday’s seawatch from 8 – 12 produced a Yellow-nosed Albatross lazily circling north and a Providence Petrel initally shearing south against the wind, only to turn and hammer north as well, with the 15 – 20 know southeasterly behind it. 2 Artic Skuas together, 1 light phase … Read more
A few years ago there was a set of comments on this line about Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoos hopping about on and feeding on the ground. Not a common thing but does happen. Though this is telling a bit more, about them maybe trying to hide. Philip