Mike and other swift watchers Got my first sightings for the summer of small flocks of white-throated Needletails at two locations Hornsby aquatic centre 16:30 about 30 birds slowly circling (probably the slowest I have ever seen them doing fluttery flight) for about five minutes before heading of to the north east. Cloudy but little … Read more
A very different Christmas as I showed Noah Strycker around for 2.5 days. For those who don’t know, Noah has been doing a big year and has been birding every day since January 1st. See his blog at http://audubon.org/noah His goal was for 5,000 species for the year, but he was on 5,949 and heading … Read more
The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, December 28, 2015 to Sunday, January 3, 2016: Area: SA Location: Tolderol Game Reserve White-winged Black Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) (3) Seen from photo point 1 feeding on the wing with some of the hundreds (thousands?) of Whiskered Terns. Along with many … Read more