It's all about the birds
Hi all, I’ve just returned from a family trip through SW Qld / NE SA outback, Waikerie – Broken Hill – Bourke – Bowra Stn – Innamincka – Flinders Ranges – Waikerie. 3200 km in 8 days with 3 kids. It went amazingly well but understandably birding was reduced to the absolute necessities. Which I … Read more
Terry and others I’ve recently changed to an Iridium handset using the Iridium network which is much better than my old Tel-It handset which used the Globalstar network (these guys keep sending letters to their customers that they’ll launch more satellites to improve their terrible reception, but never do, while Iridium is (so they claim) … Read more
Hi there, A couple of minutes ago a (likely escaped) Polytelis parrot (jizz, size and flight style; no colours were seen) flew past my office window at University of Sydney campus. Nikolas —————- Nikolas Haass nhaass@yahoo.com Sydney, NSW =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, … Read more
In north Queensland in September 1922 at the Mount Mulligan Coal Mine the silence was shattered when an explosion caused by noxious gases rocked the mining community and was heard at a distance of sixty kilometres away at Mount Molloy, north of Mareeba. The resultant death toll of seventy-five miners has been one of the … Read more
Hi all, We are planning to do some Tassie wildlifing on Friday, 3rd September, and Monday, 6th September (flanking the September Eaglehawk Neck Pelagics). We’d like to look for: Tasmanian Masked Owl Tasmanian Southern Boobook/Morepork Swamp (Brown) Quail Scrubtit 40-spotted Pardalote. Eastern Barred Bandicoot Southern Bettong Long-nosed Potoroo Spot-tailed Quoll Less likely ones: (Little and … Read more