It's all about the birds
Hi All, Spent 9-14 Jul on Kangaroo Island with my family. We experienced a bit of wild weather with a couple of gales passing through (one bringing wind gusts to 120 kph and 26 mm of rain). Recorded 79 species of birds including five heard only (Little Penguin, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Banded Lapwing, Southern Boobook, Striated … Read more
Hi All I read the reports in June/early July about LWK’s along Strzelecki and Birdsville tracks. I am wondering if anyone has seen LWK’s anywhere in western Queensland in the past few months ? Cheers Roy =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no … Read more
Dear Friends, I was also thinking of other possible desitinations if it turns out not to be worthwhile spending 7 days driving to and from Jupiter Well to find the Princess Parrot. One thought was to head up north to Katherine tolook for Gouldian Finch, which I missed there on a round-Australia in 1986. Has … Read more
Dear Friends, I had a call from Geoffrey Jones of Barra Imaging, who told me that conditions around Jupiter Well were very dry. I remember that Alan Macbride (I think it was him, apologies if I am mistaken Alan) posted an email to say that although they spent 6 days in the region in June, … Read more
The trip through Vic was uneventful with a gentle rain and strong wind. The only excitement was getting to Heathcote and finding myself stuck behind half a house. I finally got by and from there on the rain grew less until at Deni it stopped altogether. The land from Deni to Hay is quite spectacular, … Read more