My thanks to those many listers who shared their experiences with me both on the list and offline. I appreciate your kindness. I now feel well prepared to meet with my ophthalmologist and optometrist for my pre-op briefing this week. I have some clear questions to raise for clarification and some options to discuss. Sight … Read more
Evening all, Spent a few days last week surveying the birds using some environmental water flows off the Murrumbidgee River just to north of Balranald in south western NSW. Most of the sights are on private land so can’t provide details but good birds included: 2 Painted Snipe 1 (and probably 4) Pied Honeyeaters – … Read more
Mud Islands in Port Phillip, Victoria support one of the largest Silver Gull breeding colonies – estimated at up to 50 000 pairs continuously between July and January. However, this year there has been almost no breeding and I have no idea why that would be so. Does anybody know whether large numbers of Silver … Read more
UPDATE 1/ With changes taking place, Ridley are now owners of the (Dry Creek Saltfields not Cheetham). 2/ Cheetham Salt remains the owner of Price Salt fields. Where we are now requied to wear – Steel toed – OHS Foot wear. 3/ There is also a ban on metal cleaning wooden handled brushes, these are … Read more
We are planning a sailing trip to the Chatham Islands on MV Tiama (www.tiama.com) in late April/early May 2013, primarily for pelagic birding but some land birding (snipe, black robin) as well. This is the end of the breeding season for Chatham petrel and magenta petrel, and many other fabulous birds should also be around … Read more