This year’s breeding at Melaleuca has produced 12 juveniles so far. Twenty one adults were observed at the start of the summer ie 33 known birds. Three females of the 21 adults are unaccounted for and believed to have been breeding somewhere else in the range. At Taroona breeding facility, the total number fledged is … Read more
Barbary Doves could well be the most boring subject ever when it comes to birds in Adelaide but one just happened to fly in – fly out to watch me paint the fence. I’d already posted an article today on the Bonaparte Archipelago which is part of the Kimberley if you didn’t know that already … Read more
Hi Mike, Flock of WTNT at 34 01 53S, 151 06 55E (Caringbah, NSW) on Sunday Feb 12 (sorry for the delay!) about 8.45am. Probably more than 20 birds, but I was driving, so not exactly sure. Hawking fairly low over the treetops (
Update to first report – approx 45 mins later, same location, as the next rain band started. Approx. 30 more birds – very high. Hard to tell with rain falling on the bins, but at least 6 FTS and at least 4 Needletails identified. Bob Cook spanda8@bigpond.com _____ From: Bob Cook [mailto:spanda8@bigpond.com] Sent: Monday, 27 … Read more
Hi Mike and others, Group of approx 8 Fork-tailed Swifts, followed about 10 mins later by two individual White-throated Needletails. Between rain fronts in our very humid, rainy, stormy central Vic day. Approx 5:45 p.m., all heading South-east, i.e. with the fronts coming from the North-west. Axedale, between Bendigo and Heathcote, Central Victoria. First sighting … Read more