There seem to be crakes at most of the suitable wetlands around Geelong and the Bellarine. Today I had another look at Begola Wetland, a small patch of reedbeds, rank grasses and a small muddy lagoon in the middle of Ocean Grove, just behind the dunes. I’ve never noticed anything of great interest here before … Read more
Rob Morris has advised me that in 25 years he had not had any summer records of Australasian Gannets off Southport, Queensland. I checked my records and found that I only had early spring records, but no summer records of Australasian Gannets in northern NSW so I withdraw my earlier comment. Regards Greg Dr Greg. … Read more
I have been watching terns being blown past my window – ten storeys up in the air at Taringa in the mid-western burbs of Brisbane – most interesting! Conditions are atrocious, I have got leaking windows and doors from my balcony for the first time in the 15 years I have been living here and the outside … Read more
Adding to the info coming in this afternoon, a friend just called and sent me a pic of Sooty Terns at Inskip Point. There were 13 in the pic, of a small area, so I guess there are quite a few of them around Inskip. Cheers, Jill
Last week Warren Thompson and I did a trip ‘down river’ to check out the wetlands of the Clarence Valley between Coutts Crossing and Tullymorgan, near Maclean. Our first stop was at a wetland at the edge of Coutts Crossing where a number of common waterbirds were congregated around the last pool of water in … Read more