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Hello to everyone!!
Unfortunately my trusty Canon lens has reached a sad state of non-repair – or at least the repair bill quoted by Canon is totally cost prohibitive!!
So I need your help PLEASE: If anyone knows of a lens out there with the . . . → Read More: **WANTED** Canon Camera Lens EF 400mmf/5.6 L USM Interesting Geoff, Tassie could be their ultimate outpost! Despite the reports, oversell numbest in Sydney have visibly declined. No one is actually counting as far as I know. Population Theory include boom:/bust scenarios, particularly in introduced situations. The European decline will ultimately derive from human activity I suspect. Best Michael . . . → Read More: Starlings Still plenty from Ceduna to Port Augusta in SA – even took a pic or 2 at Fowlers Bay. Always think I’m back in civilisation (a misnomer of course), when I see them coming back across the Nullabor! Sent from my iPhone > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:46:43 +1000 > . . . → Read More: Starlings Maybe Avian Coronavirus ? Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org Hi everyone, Where have all the European Starlings gone. ? Once were thousands in Sydney, none. seen for a few years around Penrith, Springwood or elsewhere. Zero. ? Disease, Have I missed something ? Their absence not a regret , just a mystery. TIA Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org . . . → Read More: Starlings White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus) Report for 2019/20 Season. This season there were 4681 reports sent in, or published where I could find them. This is significantly more than last year, even after I have gone through and deleted the many duplicate reports that it appears to be fashionable to make! Unfortunately, . . . → Read More: WTNT Report for 2019/20 Sydney Sea Eagles first chick has hatched at 9:03 this morning 40 days after lay. With delayed incubation we expect the second to hatch in a day or two. Live view at Sea-EagleCAM Live Video & Chat Sea-EagleCAM Live Video & Chat . . . → Read More: Sea Eagle Hatch Hi Wim, I live in BC, Canada. I have seen yellowlegs swimming. Off-hand I don’t recall whether they were Greater or Lesser, but I have seen the behaviour a number of times. I do recall that on at least one occasion it seemed to be just a way of getting from A to B . . . → Read More: border incidents: swimming shorebirds, the case of the Spotted Redshank Border incidents: swimming shorebirds; the case of the Spotted Redshank Shorebirds do what their name implies; they generally keep to the shore. There are a few exceptions our Pied Avocets swim well and often, and of course the phalaropes have taken this trend all the way: they obtain most of their food swimming in . . . → Read More: border incidents: swimming shorebirds, the case of the Spotted Redshank Amazing what you find when going through old photos… a banded Pacific Gull most likely photographed on the foreshore at Welshpool back in 2011. https://www.ararelitus.com/birds-1 And Pacific Gulls are one of my favourites and we have them as regulars along the southern beaches of Adelaide. Not in great numbers but causing along most days. Chris . . . → Read More: Banded Pacific Gulls |
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