Thanks to all those who offered an in sites to the process of egg laying. Our eagles (White-bellied Sea-Eagle) at Birds Australia, Sydney Olympic Park have laid two eggs, as one would have expected. We have a very exact time between the two eggs, it was 3 days and 20 minutes thanks to infrared light and camera. It … Read more
I have regularly seen large numbers of Pacific Gulls roosting near the corner of Dandeong-Hastings Freeway & Thompson Rd. The actual roost area has varied as the Lyndhurst Estate has developed, most recently they can be seen near the road on the norh side of Thompson Rd about 100mts from the freeway. Often 100+ birds. … Read more
Dear B-A, Earlier today I emailed Mal Jenkins, the owner of the Printable Checklist web site to ask him if he would consider running up an Australian checklist based on Christidis & Boles. Mal has just replied, saying that he would be happy to give it a go, so it may be worth keeping an … Read more
Trying again, as the first attempt must have been in HTML format, and I’ve never figured out how to open any of those. Now trying plain text only. So if anyone cares, here’s the summary again and hopefully it will be viewable this time. Hi all, Rather late, but here is the promised summary to … Read more
Further to the report of an Intermediate Egret in one of the Whites Rd ponds yesterday my partner, Pam Jones, and I took off at lunchtime today to see whether we could find it. Rather than being in the most western pond it was in the most northern one towards the north end of Whites … Read more