Month: October 2020

I have the dickens of a job IDing these birds. I suspect this is the great egret: head, neck and eye structure surrounds. Sydney Olumpic Park last week.   Any suggestions?   Thanks   David in Blackheath

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 26, 2020 to Sunday, November 1, 2020: Area: SA Location: On our Rockleigh property Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) (5) We have been hearing bee-eaters for weeks, but never managed to see them. I was doing my last Backyard Bird Count … Read more

Maybe the Magpies are just sunbaking for the pleasure of it . Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Oct 2020, at 3:00 am, 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 … Read more

Dear Fellow birders, So, I am starting to produce videos on nature and birding. I made a short one on Carleton University — it’s a University campus in Ottawa, Canada: I feature a few birds with some video. This is my first attempt at a ‘nature documentary’ and I’m still acquiring some gear that will … Read more

What I sent last night appears to have not gone through yet. Maybe best just to call it sunning when that is what it is and leave the word anting to when there are ants. Easy. But they may be connected. This sunning behaviour (and certainly not just magpies) often has the birds in a … Read more