on the subject of finding things on FB, Australian Twitchers (I am not a member) is a closed group, so no one outside the group can see your post unless a member takes a screen shot and displays it elsewhere. If you want to search a group; in the top right hand side of the … Read more
Hi Mike 150+ White-throated Needletails circling low over Wooloowin (inner northern Brisbane) area this morning at 10.30 am. Co-ords are 27? 25′ 02.74″S and 153?? 02′ 21.13″ E. There were probably many more birds and they circled over an area over a kilometre in distance. Weather hot and cloudy with gusty wind. Cheers Roy Birding-Aus … Read more
Hi List, A while back I asked for information about birding while holidaying in Japan & quite a few listers kindly & very helpfully replied. Unfortunately it was a “family” holiday with my sons more focussed on games arcades, vending machines and oddly dressed people, so any birding had to take second place to a … Read more
Hi all, To follow on from Jen typically wonderful account of her twitching trip to see the Short-nosed/Long-nosed/American/Short-tailed (my typo) Dowitcher, just a quick reply about my twitching trip, whoops, I mean twitching dip. Well, actually dip is probably the wrong word in this case. Although I’d packed the binos, bags, camera, etc, and everything … Read more
Hi all, Here’s how the Great Dowitcher Twitch went for me. I heard about it on Monday and by 1600 I had arranged to go up with friends and we left my place at 0430 Tuesday. After a frantic four-hour drive filled with the excitement of seeing such a rare bird and the fear it … Read more