Pat OMalley

In South Gippsland (Fish Creek) at the moment and over the past few days have seen what appears to be a lone White Throated Needletail on three occasions. Only feeble bins with me and its quite high, so ID not 100% Doesn’t appear to be a Hobby (Pizzey and Knight suggest this as a possibility). … Read more

Hi all, I’ve been sent the following for comment. can anyone enlighten me (and thus my physicist friend)? Best Pat It occurred to me while watching a flock of birds take off that they were doing it in a manner conducive to injury: they were all very close together, and three dimensionally so. Why would … Read more