Greetings, I visited Norfolk Island with my two sons (5 & 7 y.o) in mid-April of this year. All birding was done in their company, so it was by no means a hard-core birding trip. I benefited from reading several Norfolk Island trip reports on Birding-Aus, the most current to our trip was Jenny Spry’s … Read more
Hi Tim, What a fantastic trip you had with Greg & Tim out in the fabulous Mt Isa region – your report was an excellent & very sensitive piece that was a pleasure to read, especially from my perspective – it is one of my favourite locations to go birding too & always has a … Read more
Last week, I and 4 others (Ann Lindsey, Mike Newman, Judy Westphal, Penny Drake-Brockman) were able to spend several days at AWC’s Newhaven sanctuary working with Peter Struik and Toni Marsh on their study of the Princess Parrots. As others have mentioned on birding-aus already, Peter and Toni are doing a great job. They have … Read more
Hi All Following on from the Light-mantled Sooty Albatross on the Molloolaba pelagic I was lucky enough to see yesterday, I went to Pt Lookout on North Stradbroke Islan this morning and, at 8.50, a Cape Petrel flew past (south) barely 30 meters off the rocks, or approx 100 meters from my position! I had … Read more
I know this is off topic, but if anyone is horrified as I am by the Australian Egg Corporation proposal to increase stocking rates 13 times to 20,00 chickens per hectare and still call the eggs free range, Choice has an open letter which you can sign to protest this. Here is the link. http://www.choice.com.au/freerangeletter?utm_source=campaigns_enews&utm_medium=email&utm_content=signouropenletter&utm_campaign=maycampaignnews2012 … Read more