g’day Aussie bird watchers Several people have remembered to send me their Needletail and swift sightings for the last season, in the last week. So this is a reminder that I am still collecting sightings preferably including the date, time, location, and number of birds. If notes on their behaviour are also supplied that is . . . → Read More: Needletail & Pacific Swift (FTS)
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Hi again, The memory cards have found a home! Thanks, Paul Dodd 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 Hi all, After sorting through my camera gear, I have a number of memory cards – both Compact Flash and SD – that are surplus to requirements. I am happy to drop them all in an envelope and send them to anyone that can offer them a good home. Sorry, but I won’t separate them, . . . → Read More: Memory cards – free to a good home – ADVERTISEMENT of sorts Hi guys While waiting for a tram this morning in Royal Park I saw, not too far into the distance, Red Wattles chasing what looked to be rather large rounded body insects. Their wings flapped vigorously. The Red Wattles stopped the chase and I realised that they were tiny birds. They were only a silhouette . . . → Read More: A perculiar sighting for me Hi All, I have spaces on an expedition departing Alice Springs to remote Princess Parrot sites in the western deserts on Sept 17th-23rd 2015. Fellow desert birding aficionado Chris Watson will be joining me as co-leader. As there are reports coming in of flocks of birds in the region we’ll be travelling to I’d say . . . → Read More: ADVERT- Princess Parrot Expedition Sept 17th-23rd 2015 Hi all Yesterday late morning a few of us went chasing woodswallows in the Mareeba area. No luck in the Koah and Chewko Road areas, and also out towards Mutchilba. Also no luck initially along Channel Road however on returning from Mutchilba along Channel Road we came across a flock of around 50 or so. . . . → Read More: Atherton Tableland Woodswallows Greetings, Lots of Woodswallows north of Channel Road yesterday but to distant to ID even with a scope. Close to there was a long flock of Tree Martins about 1.5 kilometres long and working on 20 birds per 100 metres which might be conservative that makes, 300 birds. Not the biggest flock I’ve seen but . . . → Read More: Some Atherton Tablelands sightings For those with an interest in Swans, this may be of interest. Begin forwarded message: > From: “‘Mundkur, Taej’ Taej.Mundkur@wetlands.org [orientalbirding]” < orientalbirding-noreply@yahoogroups.com> > Date: 29 May 2015 7:09:38 pm AEST > To: orientalbird < orientalbirding@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [OB] FW: Swan Specialist Group Newsletter V 11 2015 > Reply-To: “Mundkur, Taej” < Taej.Mundkur@wetlands.org> > > . . . → Read More: Fwd: [OB] FW: Swan Specialist Group Newsletter V 11 2015 News from a relatively close neighbour, the Solomon Islands: May 22 was one of the most amazing days I’ve had birding, being shown a Fearful Owl at nest site early on after a tough slippery walk over sharp limestone rocks, then finding a calling Black-faced Pitta in a forest patch by the track and getting . . . → Read More: Black-faced Pitta Hi, This is a big rarity record in Taiwan. Quite hard to find any rarities in Australia or overseas that can rival this one that meets a few criteria:- 1) First ever reported in the country. 2) A highly threatened species (globally critically endangered in this case). 3) Reliably found at one site and has . . . → Read More: Ultimate Rarity Twitch in Taiwan |
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