Hi All. I was woken predawn at Avoca Beach NSW on Sunday by a remarkable chorus of contented whistles, chortles, clicks, snaps, rasps, hiccups, short songs and other bird noises emanating from a huge old African Olive outside the bedroom window. It was laden with small fruit, unripened green and ripe black. I identified Satin … Read more
A SETBACK TO SPRING IN tROMSØ, N. NORWAY In Norwegian we have an expression: "How long was Adam in Paradise?" which we use in cases of somewhat unexpected setbacks after a promising development. Last time I wrote to you we had temperatures in the double digits and everybody was enjoying the start of spring. But since then … Read more
Dear Birding-Aus Members, Just thought I’d share a blog post I just wrote: badbirding.jpolak.org/2019/05/05/bad-birding-goes-to-jamaica/ It is about the trip my wife and I just took to Jamaica, in case anyone is interested in going there (there is relatively little information on Jamaica compared to Australia). We went unguided for 9 days, and had a great … Read more
Dear all Thank you for the identification suggestions (posted on the forum and sent directly) for the Melbourne 'parakeet' that I posted. After checking some images on the Internet, I think the suggestion that the bird was an escaped female Superb Parrot is correct. — Regards Richard
