Eastern Grass Owl at Cooper Creek near Moomba SA. 22 June 2012

If you log into Eremaea, you can select species for which you want to receive alerts. Whenever someone enters those species into a *survey*, you get an email. It doesn’t work for Birdline entries though, which is a pity, given that it runs on the same system. I wonder if it would be possible to … Read more

Australian (Spotted) Crake in SE Qld

I have recently been lamenting the lack of sightings of Australian Crake in SE Qld, (in fact, I haven’t seen one in our great state since the late-eighties!) today whilst attempting (in vain) to find Plum-headed Finch in the Lockyer Valley, Birding-Aus *Victorian* regular Dave Torr spotted one at Lake Galetley in the UQ grounds … Read more

cataracts

Hello Peter, Your doctor will ask you what sort of lenses you want put in, either to optimise short or long sight. I didn’t know you could get multifocal ones – I don’t like them in ordinary glasses, they affect my peripheral vision. I have had replacement eye lenses to optimise long sight for about … Read more

Square-tailed kite

Sorry, didn’t put a date on my sighting, (yesterday 15 Dec 2012) From: Richard Johnstone [mailto:rjohnsto@tpg.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2012 6:30 PM To: ‘birding-aus@vicnet.net.au’ Subject: Square-tailed kite I observed a single Square-tailed Kite at Woodstock cemetery (20 km east of Cowra, NSW), at about 2 pm. Flying low just above treetop level, as commonly … Read more

Square-tailed kite

I observed a single Square-tailed Kite at Woodstock cemetery (20 km east of Cowra, NSW), at about 2 pm. Flying low just above treetop level, as commonly seen. Also up to 30 Superb Parrots observed during the time I was there, landing in the white box trees and very noisy. I have seen Superb Parrots … Read more