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Please find some pictures of the Pacific Gull that frequent the Adelaide shoreline especially around my home beach of Seacliff. https://bear-koi-37kz.squarespace.com/config/pages/5eb5027377ae6a565209a1de Clear Birds Add Post Clear ALL DRAFTS REVIEW SCHEDULED Bushlark & Songlark Jun 17 EDIT DELETE A Stint of Watching Waders in the Pilbara1 Jun 16 EDIT DELETE Did Whistler’s Mother’s Son Paint . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus

Ospreys

Since April I have been photographing and writing emails about a pair of Ospreys that built a nest on a eleven story high onsite crane overlooking the Broadwater at Labrador Qld.

I first came across them when walking when one crossed the road between the cars in front of me ,struggling to . . . → Read More: Ospreys

Beach Stone-curlew eating pipis (Steve McBride)

Thanks for sharing that Steve.   What a marathon effort to get a meal! Julie Neumann 

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Curlew capers

This is an astonishing video Steve, thank you. The Beach Stone Curlews Obviously well practiced in smashing the Pippies and very persistent.

Two queries;

Could they have initially learned by copying some other spp. ? (Presumably it is a learned behaviour ) ( We have Aus Ravens softening up large lumps of hard, stale . . . → Read More: Curlew capers

Beach Stone-curlew eating pipis

Hi all,

On Monday, on the beach at Evans Head, northern NSW, I saw a pair of Beach Stone-curlews digging up pipis(Donax deltoides) with their bills & smashing them open on a small rock, to eat the insides.

I’m wondering if anyone has seen or heard of this before?

You . . . → Read More: Beach Stone-curlew eating pipis

Jeremy Hemphill – photographer

Dear Birding Aus

 

I had such prompt success with my previous request, I am emboldened to try again.

 

I’m trying to contact Jeremy Hemphill.  I tried the NT Landcare group, but received an out of office message.

 

I’m updating my ‘Best 100 Birdwatching Sites . . . → Read More: Jeremy Hemphill – photographer

Ed Pierce – bird photographer

I’m trying to contact Ed Pierce.  I believe he’s based in Townsville.

 

I’m updating my book ‘Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia’ and would like Ed’s permission to use his beautiful photos again.

 

Sue Taylor

42 Osborne Road

North Warrandyte, Victoria, 3113

(03) 9844 . . . → Read More: Ed Pierce – bird photographer

From Birding-Aus

Short range birding in Tromsø; a sunflower seed feeder in the garden in Tromsø These last weeks I have been much at home: the weather has largely been ‘typical Tromsø summer’, i.e. cool and damp, and there was still something wrong with my old car (Hopefully largely mended today), and also with my old . . . → Read More: From Birding-Aus

Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 80, Issue 19

I have a suggestion of what to do with all your bird magazines, especially current ones. I take mine, that on those rare occasions when I go to the doctor, accountant, palm-reader, etc., and leave them in the waiting rooms for other bored people to read. My guess it may gather some interest from people . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 80, Issue 19

Wingspan and Bird Observer Magazines – free

I am curious what interest there is in these. I also I have a complete set of Bird Observer magazines going back to 1970, plus all the RAOU newsletters / Wingspan and Australian Birdlife since 1978, plus complete set of Emu 1969 to 2009, all the Australian Bird Watcher / Aust Field Ornithology. . . . → Read More: Wingspan and Bird Observer Magazines – free