Recently got back from a week on Lord Howe Island helping celebrate my wife’s birthday with family and friends. This was my third trip there but I still had a couple of species to tidy up, but unlike other recent visitors, I was really only up for one pelagic. We stayed at Blue Lagoon (next … Read more
Had a pleasant surprise this afternoon when I spotted a Radjah Shelduck mingling with the usual crowd of Wood Ducks on the wall of my dam. Presumably, this was the individual that often hangs out in the pub carpark in Bulahdelah. I am about 5km upstream of the pub. Yesterday, (21st Apr), saw a Black-necked … Read more
South East Queensland is experiencing Freckled Duck fever at the moment, with sightings being reported all over The Lockyer Valley, and more recently, from Kilcoy. So I guess it was just a matter of time before they started to show up in Brisbane. Today I was lucky enough to locate six birds on the main … Read more
What Do the Birders Know? By BRIAN KIMBERLING Published: April 19, 2013 A BIRD-WATCHER is a kind of pious predator. To see a new bird is to capture it, metaphorically, and a rare bird or an F.O.Y. (First of the Year, for the uninitiated) is a kind of trophy. A list of birds seen on … Read more
Dear Birders, I came down to Tasmania in April for a ‘family’ holiday with only 2 birding objectives, firstly to see the small Tasmanian Owl that the IOC have designated as the Morepork Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis ( a split from Southern Boobook) and the second was to see the Tasmanian sub-species of Masked Owl. I … Read more