*if accepted by BARC. Forgot to mention in that last email, my photos of the Chinstrap Penguin observed at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island on the 20th of November 2013 can be viewed 1/3 of the way down this page: http://fortheloveof-birds.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/the-furious-fifties.html Cheers, Joshua Bergmark
Evening everyone! As some of you may know, I was lucky enough to be awarded an Enderby Trust Scholarship, allowing enthusiastic young people like me to travel with Heritage Expeditions to the Southern Ocean thanks to the generosity of Rodney Russ. It’s taken me a week to get everything done (wrote the trip log on … Read more
BirdLife Victoria Portland Pelagic Trips in 2014 As advised previously, I have updated the BirdLife Victoria web site with details of boat trips from Portland in 2014 and have been taking bookings for the first six months of that year. If you want a spot (or spots), please follow the instructions there to make a … Read more
The Ruff Knights – 2013 WA Twitchathon summary Team members: Bruce Greatwich Nathan Waugh Nigel Jackett Stewart Ford After two consecutive years of runner up placings to the Western Whistlers, The Ruff Knights embarked on an ambitious plan for this years twitchathon, with the theme for our route – “high risk, high reward”, and probably … Read more
A request for wader experts please. I have been provided with two images of a wader observed on a farm dam edge near Wangaratta Victoria. Keen to advise the photographer of its ID but not confident of my skills for this particular image. Would those people able to assist contact me directly and I’ll pass … Read more