Brief message

Just a quick message to Peter Crane on Birding-aus… If you’re reading this…i’ve tryed to reply to you’re email regarding you’re question but it won’t allow me to send via that email you gave… if you have a different email i could use, i’ll send it through that one… Kirri πŸ˜€ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org . . . → Read More: Brief message

Graeme Chapman’s huge library

ADVERTISEMENT. Time to start reducing the size of my library – I’m running out of space. First to go is a set of 16 volumes of Handbook of Birds of The World, in mint condition, kept in a closed bookcase since new, some volumes never even opened – $2000. Enquiries to mail@graemechapman.com.au or 02 4443 . . . → Read More: Graeme Chapman’s huge library

Coorong birds…

Hi there Just a brief message about some beautiful birds on the Coorong near Salt creek SA I viewed today 15th Jan and yesterday in case anyone is going past this way in their travels… Malleefowl x2 (on an active mound for 45 minutes) Banded Stilts x 50 (Amazing) White-fronted chats x15 Southern-scrub robins x3 . . . → Read More: Coorong birds…

WTP Permits

I would usually try to help with visiting WTP but discovered last week when I glanced at my permit when I was checking something else, that it had expired in 2013!!!!! Melbourne Water used to send a letter when renewals were due, but obviously don’t now, and haven’t for some time. They now email, and . . . → Read More: WTP Permits

An interesting read – Why do we feed wild animals?

The last sentence sums it up “And that is why many of us feed animals β€” not merely because it’s satisfying to feel we have helped them, but because it surrounds us with creatures that know us, are able to forge bonds with us, have come to regard us as part of their world.” See . . . → Read More: An interesting read – Why do we feed wild animals?

Lorikeets on shift work

At work here in Melton (far western fringe of Melbourne, Victoria), planted Mugga Ironbark (*Eucalyptus sideroxylon*) flowered heavily from September through to end of December 2015, and was noisily utilised by Musk and Purple-crowned Lorikeets and Red Wattlebirds (plus resident New Holland & White-plumed Honeyeaters). As the ironbarks tapered off in late December, Spotted Gum . . . → Read More: Lorikeets on shift work

Gregory NP & Nitmiluk NP Trip Report

Wonderful Tim….loved going to some of those spots! Thanks Peter —– Original Message —– From: “Timothy Dolby” < dolby.timothy@gmail.com> To: < birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 6:19 PM Subject: [Birding-Aus] Gregory NP & Nitmiluk NP Trip Report > Hi all, > > With all this discussion about missing trip reports, I thought I post . . . → Read More: Gregory NP & Nitmiluk NP Trip Report

Fwd: Malheur Wildlife Refuge

Begin forwarded message: > From: “Philip Veerman” < pveerman@pcug.org.au> > Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Malheur Wildlife Refuge > Date: 10 January 2016 9:29:10 am ACST > To: “‘Denise Goodfellow’” < goodfellow@bigpond.com.au> > > Well that is a very wordy piece. I wonder how serious the actual problem is > and what they actually can do . . . → Read More: Fwd: Malheur Wildlife Refuge

Gregory NP & Nitmiluk NP Trip Report

Hi all, With all this discussion about missing trip reports, I thought I post my latest report on to Gregory National Park, the Victoria Hwy and Nitmiluk National Park on Birding-aus. If you would like to see the full report with images, see http://tim-dolby.blogspot.com.au. Always appreciate any positive feedback or corrections (perhaps with the latter, . . . → Read More: Gregory NP & Nitmiluk NP Trip Report

Treatment plant access

Hi all I’ve just met a fella named Tony Jurgensen from Innisfail, Nth Qld who is traveling around Vic and would love to visit treatment plant this week. If anyone is going dish and is happy to show him around his number is 0439376357 he doesn’t have email unfortunately. Thanks, Janine Sent using CloudMagic Email . . . → Read More: Treatment plant access