We have had a mystery caller at 0500 each day, heard from our veranda at Cassowary House; I am not sure what it is, it sounds like it ought to be a nightjar perhaps, but it does not sound like Large-tailed; I don’t have any calls of White-throated available to be as i’m in transit … Read more
A bit of a mixed bag here. I have received an unconfirmed report of a Kelp Gull over the past couple of days at Inskip Point. Please keep your eyes out if you are up that way. Meanwhile, there now appears to be a pair of Australian Little Bittern at Parklands Wetlands (http://tinyurl.com/pwpzcpb) and these … Read more
Just received an email from a birder in Holland letting me know that: *”Hi Tom, a friend of mine is now looking at the end of Inskip Point at a Lesser Black-backed Gull or Kelp Gull. He has some photo’s, although he found the bird late during the day. Could you report this to local … Read more
In response to Jenny Spry’s question on birding-aus about anyone planning an Australian Big Year, I plan to do a Big Year for Western Australia sometime in the future. The plan is to update my web site for the places visited, plus hopefully write a different version for a book on where to find the … Read more
I have recently read, for the first time since acquiring an interest in birds, the poem “Bell Birds” by Henry Kendall. I was struck by description in the last two lines:- “And straightway the hues of their feathers unfolden The green and the purple, the blue and the golden.” It sounds as if he is … Read more