I was enjoying a meal at the Eden Fishermen’s Club this evening when I noticed 12 to 15 White-throated Needletails flying past the windows. They flew up and down Imlay Street for about 5 minutes. Cheers David Sent from my iPhone =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body … Read more
George Swann is currently photographing a large ‘black-backed’ gull at the Broome rubbish tip. Council workers spotted the bird yesterday morning but then it went AWOL but returned today. It is an adult with white head and tail and orange spot on [yellow] bill. It is dark grey rather than black above and has a … Read more
Many of our Australian carnivorous marsupials are threatened with extinction, and this appears to be another one. If only they had the teeth to mount a fightback! See current issue of the “Australian Geographer”, direct link with free pdf access: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2012.731307#preview Colin =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the … Read more
G’day Birders I’ve just spend a happy 20 minutes (from about 4.00 pm) watching a Buff Banded Rail feeding on the edge of man made pool at the side of Victor Harbor Library. I had the best views in town, looking out of the very large Library picture windows directly onto it and no more … Read more
Many thanks to Neil Macumber for organising the Port Fairy pelagic at the weekend. It wasn’t the most bird rich trip but nice for photography – a very large number of White-faced Stormies and good numbers of Yellow-nosed Albatross. http://birdswingbirdingwildlifetours.wildiaries.com/trips/11077-Port-Fairy-Pelagic On the way back we stopped and had a look at Sanderling … a flock … Read more