Birdlife Australia Northern Queensland members Kath Shurcliff and Dave Houghton reported (on Eremaea) an amazing concentration of Freckled Ducks at a reserve in northern Queensland a few days ago. They counted 441 but conceded there were probably more as not all of the wetland could be seen from their scope site. As far as I … Read more
Dear Birding-aussers Has anyone had experience of overnighting near the airport in Mauritius. I have to do this en route to Madagascar in October and so far the only hotels my travel agent has turned up are over 30 miles from the airport and the usual sort of phoney native palm huts along a golden … Read more
So after a successful Forest Wagtail twitch we decided to chase up some of the other local specialties and hopefully photograph them. So with that in mind we headed to the famous Grey Honeyeater site near Kunoth Well, north if Alice Springs, where we’d seen one previously. No joy 🙁 This morning we headed for … Read more
I’m doing a presentation on behalf of BirdLife Melbourne to a local parklands group later in the year and am currently working on it, so that I can get appropriate photos to use hopefully (which can take time.) I’m using birds I’ve seen when I’ve visited the park and am up to Noisy Miners. I’m … Read more
We are pleased to have seen the Forest Wagtail this morning. It seems very contented in the sanctuary it has found in a predominately European garden in Alice. It is so much tinier than we envisaged from the wonderful footage we have seen on Chris Watson’s web site. I hope someone captures and publishes a … Read more