I saw at least 3 Spotted Crakes and 2 Spotless Crakes late this afternoon at Jeringot (part of Belmont Common, beside the Barwon River in Geelong). They were quite active right in front of the hide, mostly on the muddy inlet, or along the reed bed margins. Russell Woodford Geelong =============================== To unsubscribe from this … Read more
Dear All, I will be spending a few days at a work retreat at Kioloa on the NSW coast near Bateman’s Bay in a couple of weeks. I expect to have time for some morning and/or evening birding. Never having birding in NSW before I have quite along list of targets, I have looked at … Read more
Hi Denise, you were referring to the sex of those Accipiters, not their gender. Cutting a sociolinguistic explanation short: as fas as ornithology is concerned, birds have a sex, but no gender. Cheers, Jonny Jonny Schoenjahn Perth WA jonnybird@bigpond.com Denise wrote on 12 January 2013: “In the Top End size range for male Brown Goshawk … Read more
G’day all I was eagerly waiting for a pair of incubating Spotted Pardalotes to hatch their chicks. Their hole was in an easily watchable part of my garden. Yesterday I realised I hadn’t seen any activity for a while and investigated to find an excavation behind the nest entrance – no doubt to extract eggs … Read more
Hi Graeme, interesting that Eastern Shrike-tits can have significantly different calls to Northern S-t, thanks for enlightening me. I was almost going to say that I had not had much experience with the species in Qld (once I think) but left it that my experience was based on ‘south-eastern Australia’. Specifically, Victoria where I’ve seen … Read more