Peter

In your case, it sounds like water had got inside and corroded lots of parts. Aren’t they supposed to be waterproof? How are they suggesting the water got inside? Peter Shute

The link was there in the email I got. Maybe people didn’t realise it was quite a long way down, inside a couple of levels of forwarded emails. The link is: http://www.mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html Peter Shute ________________________________________ From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au [birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Peter Waanders [waanders.peter@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 6 March 2011 3:35 PM To: Birding Aus Subject: … Read more

Do you have any warranty at all if you do that? Peter Shute > —–Original Message—– > From: birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au > [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of > Andrew Taylor > Sent: Friday, 4 March 2011 3:07 PM > To: birding-aus@lists.vicnet.net.au > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Swarovski’s > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 01:49:58PM +1100, Alastair Smith … Read more

I came across a reference to a two volume set called “A Field Guide to Australian Birds”, divided into “Passerines” and “Non-passerines”, published in the early 70s. I assume this is the forerunner of the more recent “Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds”? It seems to be about the size dimensions, but twice as many … Read more

“Lunch was at Rowse Lagoon near Goulburn, which seemed to have a lot of water, but was full of water weeds, so one couldn’t see much apart from Swamphen heads.” I visited Rowes Lagoon in September 2009, to find just a bare paddock, so it’s good to hear it has water in it. I was … Read more