Any bids on ID?
Graeme Stevens
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Any bids on ID?
Graeme Stevens
Alongside the Mangalore Flora Reserve in northern Victoria was a large bunch of Magpies… unusual… or maybe not… I’d be interested in your experiences of similar events… www.ararelitus.com/blog/super-magpie-families Chris Shaw seashore@internode.on.net +61 409 675912 www.ararelitus.com After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb Birding-Aus mailing list . . . → Read More: Super Magpie Families Hi all, I caught up with author and bushman John Blay for an interview last week in Eden, NSW. John has written numerous books including a trilogy about Australia’s southern forests such as On Track: Searching out The Bundian Way. John also discovered Blay’s Wattle (acacia blayana). If you love nature and birds his . . . → Read More: John Blay and the southern forests Hello All Reluctantly selling my complete set of these highly prized reference books. (Photos of each volume can be provided on request.) I haven't settled on a price just yet, but any reasonable offer will be considered. Anyone interested can contact me directly on: mikewood4370@gmail.com Regards, Mike For months a family of Purple Gallinules has taken over our back terrace, crapping all over the place in a most unsavoury fashion, retreating a few paces when chased off but always returning. Very upsetting despite our inherent love of most things Avian. Then, a mob of presumably unattached male Magpies appeared and chased away . . . → Read More: biological control, Worlds best songbird. That’d be 2021, not 2011 From: Tom Wilson Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:16 AM To: birding aus ; Michael Tarburton Subject: First Swift Sighting – North Turramurra Sydney 2 Nov 2011 Hi All just had my first swift sighting of the year – approx 40 White-throated Needletails in a loose, circling . . . → Read More: First Swift Sighting – North Turramurra Sydney 2 Nov 2021 Hi All just had my first swift sighting of the year – approx 40 White-throated Needletails in a loose, circling group over my house. Hopefully the first of many for 2021/22 to report to Mike in April. (Mike – the 21/22 spreadsheet has been started…) Cheers Tom Wilson . . . → Read More: First Swift Sighting – North Turramurra Sydney 2 Nov 2011 Some time ago while driving on a country road close to my home in East Gippsland I hit a Magpie head on. I stopped and looked back. Immediately the other members of the Magpie family flew down to the dead or injured bird and began pecking at it vigorously as it lay there prone . . . → Read More: Magpie Injury Behaviour Recently in outback Queensland (Boulia) and came across Crested Pigeon nesting in Magpie Larks nest. HANZAB says they do nest in large old nests. Has anyone seen nest in Magpie Larks nest? Geoff Shannon Driving to Grafton today, saw a magpie killed on M1 – 110kph. Luckily, it went behind the vehicle in front. I thought it was lucky because I wasn’t close enough to hit it. However, just as it came out from behind the front vehicle, it exploded into a whole lot of feathers and slammed . . . → Read More: Magpie killed by wind? |