Author: Mark Young

Thank you to Mick, Sue and Jill for all your advice. I wasn’t able to get to do too much birding, but I did manage to get a few hours here and there, albeit only around the hotel grounds and the Hunter Valley Gardens. I did get to see 2 Babblers that were on the corner of Broke and McDonald road’s on 2 occasions. I also interestingly enough saw 2 female Satin Bowerbirds in the same location. Unfortunately the only wombat that I saw was 1 that was permanently sleeping on the side of the road. Maybe next time I’ll spot a more active one. Lots of Eastern Grey’s around the place too. The gardens has some nice bird there, including the world’s friendliest Grey Shrike-thrush. The flowering Eucalyptus (Ironbarks?) in our hotel grounds had plenty of Lorikeet in them, but not much else. Thanks again for all the advice, Regards, Mark _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

Hi everyone, I’ll be at Polokobin for a few days next week, and I’m wondering if anyone knows of any good places to go birding in the general area? Regards, Mark Sent from Surface Pro _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Youngs FamilyMail < youngsfamilymail@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does the flight of a Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo differ from that of a > Glossy Black Cockatoo? > > The reason I ask is that I saw 2 Black Cockatoos flying over Neutral Bay > yesterday morning around 8:30. I couldn’t tell what type of Cockatoo they > were, but I thought at the time that their movements were very slow. Almost > too slow to fly. > > I remember thinking at the time that perhaps they were flying slower than > I remember seeing Yellow-tailed Cockatoos fly, and if that was true, then > perhaps they might have been Glossies? > > So my question is, is there any way to tell by the flight of a Black > Cockatoo what type it may be? > > Regards, > Mark > _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

Hi everyone, Does the flight of a Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo differ from that of a Glossy Black Cockatoo? The reason I ask is that I saw 2 Black Cockatoos flying over Neutral Bay yesterday morning around 8:30. I couldn’t tell what type of Cockatoo they were, but I thought at the time that their movements were very slow. Almost too slow to fly. I remember thinking at the time that perhaps they were flying slower than I remember seeing Yellow-tailed Cockatoos fly, and if that was true, then perhaps they might have been Glossies? So my question is, is there any way to tell by the flight of a Black Cockatoo what type it may be? Regards, Mark _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

From: Mark and Amanda Young Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎28‎ ‎December‎ ‎2013 ‎7‎:‎52‎ ‎PM To: birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au Hi everyone, This morning I was photographing a small group of 5 Ruddy Turnstones at Long Reef, when 2 Peregrine Falcons flew low over the group of birds causing the birds to take cover. At this spot of the beach, there were approx 50 Silver gulls, 1 White-faced Heron and the Turnstones. About 20 mins before I saw the gulls, I noticed Turnstones had started to watch the sky. They stopped, made themselves lower to the ground and stood still for a few minutes. After that they continued feeding just like before. About 10 minutes later, all the birds became spooked. The Silver Gulls all flew off to form a group sitting on the water about 30 metres out from the beach, whilst the Turnstones originally tried to hide near the big rocks before moving to be closer amongst the seaweed. At this point the birds were sitting on the sand and to me they looked like they were trying to get as low as possible. I suspected a Raptor, but I couldn’t find any after looking for about 5 minutes. The birds all stayed still, so I decided to leave head off for a while. When I started to walk towards the track I heard the sounds of a couple of birds flying low. I’ve not memorised the voice of a Peregrine Falcon, so I didn’t recognise them until they did a couple of very low loops allowing me to get a couple of images before they headed off again. I thought I’ld share this as there was some discussion recently about how other birds respond to Raptors. I’ve seen Stints and Pacific do similar things at Long Reef before when Raptor fly over. The most peculiar instance was watching a PGP try to make itself skinnier than it actually was (have photos of this if anyone is interested). The Turnstones choice of hiding in the seaweed seemed like a good one as they were really hard to see if you didn’t know they were there. Not sure if it worked, or if the Falcon’s just weren’t interested. If anyone is interested, I managed a photo of the 2 Falcons. I think one of them is a young bird. http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj177/MTY400/PeregrineFalcon_MG_2053_zpsbfc0e79d.jpg Regards, Mark _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

Hi everyone, I was just done at the Golf Course this morning and both birds are in the same location where I saw them last night. I’ve posted a map of their location on http://bit.ly/1ckTVWX The red area is where the Plovers are, the black circle further down is where I saw the Black-tailed Native Hen this morning. Regards, Mark =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================

G’day everyone, I’ve found this shorebird this afternoon, but I can’t reconcile it with any bird I’ve seen before. There were 2 possibly 3 of these birds together with 12 Pacific Golden Plover and 1 yet to be confirmed Grey Plover Can someone please have a look and let me know what they think it might be? http://bit.ly/15PppCH Regards, Mark =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================

Hi everyone, I need help with the ID of a bird I saw this afternoon at Warriewood Wetlands. I’m at a loss as to what this bird might be. The bird was just slightly bigger than the Spinebill that was going off at it. It has a slightly darker head, which you can make out in one of the photo’s with some dark stripes in the breast. Not sure on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to photo 1 http://bit.ly/1dAx33m Regards, Mark =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================

Hi, I saw this bird this morning at Wattamolla in the Royal National Park, but not sure on it’s exact ID. I’m fairly certain that it’s a Heathwren, but I’ve not seen any sort of Heathwren before, so it’s a little hard for me to be sure on this. Using Morcombes as my guide, and Google, the bird looks more like a Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, except in the colour of the eye and the strong supercillium. It doesn’t have the strong white markings in the primaries for a SH, but it does have some white colour, which doesn’t seem to be in any images I’ve seen of CRH’s. When I saw it, the bird was by itself in sparse vegetation, as you can tell from the photos. Link to Photo 1: http://bit.ly/14V4M7u Link to Photo 2: http://bit.ly/168ejC4 Regards, Mark =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================

Hi Yesterday I visited Buderroo NP early in the morning. I heard a bird call that I then checked against the calls I had on my phone. The call exactly matched the call of a Wonga pigeon in terms of notes sung and duration of the call ( the call I listened to was from a cd by Dave Stewart). I noted at the time that the call that that the recording of the pigeon seemed to be a bit higher than the call of the bird, which seemed a bit lower. At the time I put this down to the recording, but I wonder if I did hear the Wonga pigeon, or another bird mimicking it? They were plenty of lyrebirds in the area at the time, which may have also made that call. When a lyrebird mimics another birds call, is it exactly the same, or slightly different? Is there anyway to tell if the call you hear was made by the species that should make it, or it’s being mimicked? — Sent from Gmail Mobile =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================