When one travels along the Stuart Hw. through Daley Waters, Newcastle Waters etc to Tennant Creek and then along the Barkly Hw. to Barkly Homestead and onto Camooweal on the Qld border there were in the old days bores with windmills connected to stock troughs for the drovers to water their stock the distance they … Read more
About 9am today, we thought we had a large flock of Needletails or Swifts doing their thing over our house at Brooms Head, northern NSW. However, a closer look showed they were all Common Terns. We watched for about a minute before they moved out over the ocean, but can’t say how long it might … Read more
We travelled from Canberra to Kerang in a quest for the two rareties on Sunday. We arrive at around 3pm at the northern end and walked down the southern without seeing anything much at all. This morning we went back to the southern end and there were more waders (and better viewing conditions), but no … Read more
Mike and others, I was looking up to pick lemons and I saw one white-throated needletail. Just the one about 7.30 pm 28th December, no cloud t shower of rain during the day—the other 99 must have flown beyond the trees ! Dick Turner Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Hello all, I am a university student from the US visiting for the next three weeks. Back home I study the breeding ecology of cliff swallows (similar to the Australian fairy martin). I am hoping this Australian birding group will help me in my search for an active fairy martin colony in Victoria. I have … Read more