Access to Eastlakes Golf Course

Hi all, Could anyone tell me about accessing the lakes at Eastlakes Golf Course? I’d like to have a nose at the Great Crested Grebe, but didn’t fancy being pot-shotted at by golfers. Cheers, Tony Photos, paintings and drawings of Australian, NZ, Swiss and British Birds www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send … Read more

Bribie Island notes – October 1st 2011

G’day, A few notes on recent sightings on Bribie Island, some 50 km north of Brisbane, Qld. Today, October 1st, I was driving towards the Kakadu Beach shorebird roost when I noticed a distant flock of birds over the road ahead. They were circling, so unlikely to be the Topknot Pigeons that Bribie has been … Read more

bird’s eye view of a bower

Hi, Plenty of action in my garden, no need to go anywhere. I try to do a couple of birdy-related things each season with my boys. I had planned to check out our local bower and put out some blue objects for our Satin Bowerbirds early in September and just hadn’t got around to it … Read more

hybrid Rainbow/Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Bankstown

(which I’d had my camera with me…) Came across a small lorikeet – body slightly larger than scaly-breasted, plumage was that of scaly-breasted but for a blue head like Rainbow – a bit lighter and more bluish. Cas =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, … Read more

barn owl rescue Randwick

A couple of weeks ago I was walking in raandwick when I heard a commotion and a gathering of around 20 to 30 pied currawongs making a racket, and saw something pale brown fall down, which was a young barn owl. I went to pick it up, but it flew off and was immediately divebombed … Read more