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Hi Mike,
More sightings from a week in the northern Torres Strait:
20 February at 10.06am – 3 White-throated Needletails at the Saibai Cemetery heading east
20 February at 12.40pm – a mixed flock of approximately 110 birds, roughly 40 Pacific Swifts and 70 . . . → Read More: Additional Pacific Swift and White-throated Needletail sightings At 1.30 p.m. on Monday 24 February a Black-breasted Buzzard was seen circling Chiltern No 2 dam for several minutes before disappearing to the south. Seen by Ken Haines and Sue Taylor. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Hi all, There has been an explosion in the numbers of Australian Ravens around our place on the Woronora River at Como, south Sydney this year. I’ve lived here for 20 years and there has always been a small population in the area, but in the last year the numbers seem . . . → Read More: Raven explosion Good news from Queensland. The Sunshine Coast Council has agreed to protect a 90-hectare wetland as a nature reserve. The West Coolum Wetland, home to several interesting and scarce bird species, had been zoned for sporting development. The decision follows the earlier environmental victory that was the acquisition and restoration of the nearby Yandina Creek . . . → Read More: New Wetland Reserve on Sunshine Coast Worth a read. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/europe/frozen-bird-ice-age-scli-intl-scn/index.html Warm regards, Charles Hunter It's a lovely time of year here at the moment. Many years ago I planted many Rhagodia parabolica to bring in the variegated wrens which worked. An unforeseen benefit of the Rhagodia has been the little red berries that they produce in copious amounts. This means that flocks of silvereyes teem through the bushes-often . . . → Read More: garden wilmington SA I have noticed what I wonder is a pattern in budgerigar occurrence and movements. In 2019 keen on spending time with this species I noted that there were sometimes 100s in January/Feb of 2019 in the Alice Springs region. By April/May when I arrived in Alice things keen on seeing some flocks things were much . . . → Read More: Wild and crazy little budgies and shifting movements and patterns Hi again Mike,
Another flock of around 100 Pacific Swifts were observed on Goldsborough Road in Goldsborough Valley, south of Cairns, at 11.05am on 14 February.
Regards, Tania Ireton The Botanic Gardens Scientists and Seed Bank are doings a truly wonderful job. Obviously more on-ground research in burned areas, particularly those which were previously unburned in living history, needs to be done for many years in order to monitor all kinds of regeneration of plants and animals. I am pessimistic. There seems . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 76, Issue 8 Hi Mike,
63 Pacific Swifts were observed along a stretch of the Bruce Highway south of Cairns from about Warner Road, Yarrabah, feeding over the canefields around 9.45am on 12 February. The birds were seen whilst we were driving for about five minutes.
One more was observed . . . → Read More: Pacific Swifts |
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