Magpie swooping advice

Hi brains trust, Bill here

My sister is a crossing guard at a primary school in the mornings in Melbourne.

She’s just moved to a new crossing, and apparently there’s a very swoopy Magpie there that terrorises the kids in Soring.

Swooping season is coming up and my sister was wondering if it might . . . → Read More: Magpie swooping advice

Eungella Honeyeater

Hi again… So the Eungella Honeyeater… I would love some guidance on where is the best location at Eungella NP to find them… And has anyone seen them recently? Thanks heaps Kirri Sent from my iPhone

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Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, June 14, 2021 to Sunday, June 20, 2021:

Area: SA

Location: Gregory st Port Elliot SA

Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus) (1) Bird sighted and calling from a Australian Golden Wattle in my front garden

Reported by: Winston Syson on Sunday, June . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest

Michelmaus Cay advice

Hi there… Hoping to go to Michelmaus Cay off Cairns in the next week or two if possible… – Just wondering is it worth it? – Are there any good seabirds on the sand spit? Is it the right time of year? – What’s the best way to get there/cheapest tour option as we don’t . . . → Read More: Michelmaus Cay advice

Michaelmas Cay advice

I went with Seastar Cruises in September 2017. They go to the cay for snorkelling. You have to ask the skipper to have someone take you around the cay in a small boat to view what birds are there. I’d check with them direct about the current arrangement. Elisabeth Dark

On 20 Jun 2021, . . . → Read More: Michaelmas Cay advice

Meidum geese

On 18/06/2021 7:06 pm, Aidan Sudbury via Birding-Aus wrote: > In the latest issue of Birdlife, birds from an ancient Egyptian frieze > are described as “quite unlike any species known today”, but they are > almost perfect pictures of Red-breasted Geese. > > Aidan Sudbury > I wondered about a hybrid, but this post . . . → Read More: Meidum geese

Meldum geese

In the latest issue of Birdlife, birds from an ancient Egyptian frieze are described as "quite unlike any species known today", but they are almost perfect pictures of Red-breasted Geese. Aidan Sudbury

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Certainly too far south.

Did you consider Fuscous Honeyeater ?

Cheers

Graeme

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Brown Honeyeater

Brown Honeyeater

Clear sighting of a flock of 8 brown Honeyeaters seen very clearly outside my kitchen window feeding on banksia flowers. I live in Don Valley, Launching Place, Victoria. According to the distribution map for this bird we are way to far south to have the Brown Honeyeater as a visitor. First time I . . . → Read More: Brown Honeyeater

Sea Eagle double catch

A friend of mine was yesterday at Garie Beach, Royal NP, south of Sydney.

 

He watched a Sea Eagle fly off a cliff, hit the water, and emerge with two fish. ‘Either two fish, or a fish with two tails!’

 

Has anyone seen or heard of such . . . → Read More: Sea Eagle double catch