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
All of the frigatebird discussion recently reminded me of a frigatebird I photographed at Cooktown when I was in Australia in 2006. I tentatively identified it as a Great Frigatebird. I’m not looking at my Aus references at the moment by I seem to recall that those white “wing-spurs” that have been much discussed here recently, … Read more
Thanks to those who responded. The information is very helpful. Will try to do a trip report when we get back. Sonja =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Dear all, Dr Stephen Debus has received a letter from a concerned Kempsey birdwatcher. This is a summary of his letter. On Boyters Lane, Jerseyville (near Kempsey), there is a Council-owned large wetland inside the fence that has valuable fringe habitat on the road verge (which shelters cover-dependent birds that use the wetland and low … Read more