paul Hi birders, Ruth and I have decided to have a spontaneous long weekend in fabulous Brisbane and the surrounds I have already booked flights – flying up tomorrow (Friday) evening to the Gold Coast, and flying back from Brisbane on Monday evening. We intend going birding, of course! We have a number of “targets” – … Read more
Hi birders, In January of this year I posted about cameras – firstly indicating that I intended to upgrade Ruth’s Canon gear and secondly that I was considering abandoning the Nikon camp and jumping ship to Canon. Quite a number of people responded both on birding-aus and to me directly, so I thought I would … Read more
Hi birders, This is really for the photographer types out there. I am looking at replacing Ruth’s Canon 350D with an upgrade. I am also looking at replacing my Nikon gear with Canon gear – to be honest, I have never been really happy with the Nikon D200S and I have never liked the Nikon … Read more
The Birds Australia Victoria Twitchathon was held this weekend. There were six teams competing in the 8-hour event and eight teams competing in the 24-hour event (although one team will be competing next weekend due to previous commitments last weekend). As always with the Twitchathon there were all sorts of teams competing – from the … Read more
Hi again everyone, Once again Ruth and I are competing in the 24-hour category of the Birds Australia Victoria Twitchathon this weekend. Our team is the Gang-gang Gang and comprises Ruth and myself, Tim Bawden and an observer – “The Age” journalist, John Van Tiggelen. Ruth and I will once again attempt to tweet as … Read more
