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This thing is doing the rounds of Facebook, etc, at the moment – a recording of a voice that sounds like it’s saying either Laurel or Yanny depending on how good your high frequency hearing is. www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-16/laurel-or-yanny-what-you-hear-could-depend-on-hearing-loss/9768478 If different people can hear such different things from one recording, is it any wonder the bird call … Read more
Surely one Wedge-tailed Eagle observed flying over somewhere in a city is not that strange. Inner Melbourne and Sydney probably. I don’t wish to sound too privileged but on average, I have a Wedge-tailed Eagle observed from my home, flying over at least a few times a year. Admittedly Canberra is rather special and they … Read more
SPRING AT LAST IN TROMSØ; ONCE MORE AROUND THE BALSFJORD I have lived in Tromsø, N. Norway, for 45 years now, and every spring I drive at least once ‘around the Balsfjord’, the fjord penetrating southwards from Tromsø for some 100 km’s; I must have reported about this trip many times to you already, so … Read more
If planned burns have occurred in the Kedron brook wetland complex (or Boondall / Tinchi Tamba wetlands), may be investigating? These areas are not that far from forested foothills to the west, ‘as the eagle flies’. Also possibly a juvenile moving around? ________________________ Stacey McLean email: ninox44@iinet.net.au phone: 0468413810 ____________________________________________ Aquiring and managing land with … Read more