Friends, Previously we have had a discussion on the proper response of birding organisations to a plan to use 200 hectares of Black-breasted Button-quail habitat for a development of 6,500 people The Rainbow Shores development is on the Inskip Peninsula immediately south of Fraser Island in Queensland. The development was refused by the Gympie Regional … Read more
Saw the female Painted Snipe this morning in the rain at the Triangle Pond, Homebush. Water levels very high – scoured the pond, also going along the other two sides (the road) and also tried to peer through the casuarinas on the other side to see the bigger lake to no avail. Met Tony Palliser … Read more
Hey everyone, Firstly a reminder that the WA Twitchathon 2011 is fast approaching, coming up on the 10 & 11th December – as always, info & rego forms are available from the BAWA office at Perry Lakes or by getting in touch with me. Similarly, two of the teams in the 24hr competition,The Big Twits … Read more
Hoopoes–Riet’s favourite bird— are quite stronlgly migratory, and clearly can fly much better than ot looks lkike at first sight. In Tromsoe, at 70* N in N. Norway, a country where no hoopoes ever nest, we see one or two almost every autumn, probably Siberian birds. They all perish, sadly, when frost makes it impossible … Read more