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During my morning walk here at Brooms Head this morning, I had the good luck to watch a pair of Whipbirds dancing around in a dead fallen tree and the relatively cleared low bush. Lasted for about 40 seconds. Certainly not something I’d seen before. Peter Morgan The conservation battle is never finally won; the . . . → Read More: Whipbirds Dear All, We are going to take a trip up to Cairns in March for a week for birding. Our idea is to cover the distance between Cairns and Cape Tribulation. I was hoping to solicit comments on our rough itinerary. It goes like this: Cairns 2-3 nights, for Esplanade and botanical garden Somewhere in . . . → Read More: cairns/cape trib advice 1. Consider taking a hinterland route via Mareeba and Julatten instead of the coast. There are lots of good birding places inland. You can find out the birding spots in two books currently in print “The Complete Guide to Finding the BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA” and “Finding Australian Birds” both published by CSIRO and possibly available . . . → Read More: Cairns/Cape Trib Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report – January 14th, 2018 Participants: Ruth Brozek, Martin Cake, Karen Dick, Darryl Eggins, Mona Loofs-Samorzewski, Bruce Richardson, Robert Shore, Nicole Sommer, Ashley Thomson, Els Wakefield and Paul Brooks (organiser and report compiler) Boat: The Pauletta, skippered by John Males, with deckhand Hugh Smith. Notes: There was an out-of-season weather event in . . . → Read More: Eaglehawk Pelagic Trip Report, January 14th 2018 Great tip Michael. I definitely came to the right place to ask my birding Cam questions! Thanks very much! Don On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Michael Hunter < drmhunter@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > I have a NikoD90 Coolpix, also known as P900, bought for about $700 and > > used preferentially . . . → Read More: FW: Nikon D90 > I have a NikoD90 Coolpix, also known as P900, bought for about $700 and > used preferentially to a Canon SLR, mainly because of its extreme zoom ,ie > 83x, and am very happy with it. > > The main disadvantage is its weight, and at extreme zoom may have trouble > focussing on . . . → Read More: FW: Nikon D90 Hi all, I’ll be in Japan in March and will have maybe one free day to do some birding. I will probably have the option of spending that day in either Kyoto or Osaka. Does anyone have any tips about which would be the better option? I have seen some info on the Nanko Bird . . . → Read More: One day in Japan I am going to Mallacoota next month, and wonder if any local birders can give me advice. I know the area has tons of species, but I am particularly after Ground Parrots, Beautiful Firetails, Emu-wrens and Turquoise Parrots. I know the Nadgee park across the border is a Ground Parrot site, but it’s a . . . → Read More: Mallacoota On 12 February 2018 at 04:00, < birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org> wrote: > Send Birding-Aus mailing list submissions to > birding-aus@birding-aus.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding- > aus.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body ‘help’ to > birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org > > You can reach the . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 52, Issue 11 I was driving on the Princes Highway , North Geelong this morning when I saw what appeared to be a dead swift on the nature strip. I was stopped at the lights and was able to look at it for a couple of minutes. It attracted my attention because it was unlike the normal roadkill . . . → Read More: Possible swift |
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