We have a pair of Whistling Kites nesting in a tree close to our house. From the times given in HANZAB I suspect is around a week until hatching. I am keeping an eye on them to see what I can learn about the process. The thought has occurred that if anyone is studying . . . → Read More: Nesting Whistling Kites
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Just heard my first CBC for the season, in Hunters Hill NSW. Happy spring everyone! Alistair The advent of the third decade of the twenty first century has delivered overlapping health and climate crises. These have impacted on our birding and travel activities. Covid restrictions have ruled out overseas travel, and interstate ventures are uncertain. The repeated experience of trips cancelled at the last moment means that travel planning has become . . . → Read More: Cassowaries, Thickknees and the Great Barrier Grief Kirri, it seems you are still using a CompactFlash CF card that has pins in the card reader. You really should switch to SD and microTF cards for 3 reasons. 1. Significantly faster 2 Cheap as chips in high capacities 3. Robust readers with no pins, often plug directly into laptops and tablets. Your 7D . . . → Read More: Card readers Hey everyone… I have a Canon 7D mk ll camera body… What do u all use out there that’s fast and efficient when it comes to card readers downloading images that are RAW to the computer fast Nd great quality??? The other cheap one I got had these little projection thingys which became a little . . . → Read More: Card readers Good morning, I hope you are good ? I need an urgent Favour from you, I'd appreciate if you could email me back once you get this. Many thanks, Tony Has anyone looked at the systematics of the Pied Currawong on the cape? I spent time watching them last week and their flight seemed (at least to me) more laborious than those farther south. Is this my imagination or have others noticed differences? — Iain CampbellTropical Birding Tourswww.tropicalbirding.com . . . → Read More: Pied Currawong on Cape York I’m sure some of you lucky ones see Frogmouths regularly but when one pays me a visit at night at my home I’m astounded… www.ararelitus.com/blog/tawny-frogmouth-gives-a-hoot 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 Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change . . . → Read More: A Tawny Frogmouth In My Backyard Hi Phil, Were the Chowchillas reacting to you ? Have had Buff Breasted Button quail flushed then fly high back over my Head to land ~ 50 m behind, twice, separate birds, not through tree branches though. Inland from you, next to a large dam alongside the main inland road. This was a predator escape . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2 I think reacting to the other group as I was not unduly close. maybe the combination of us plus the problems with the other group proved too much! Usually they would scuttle away or fly low down very short distances, This was a very atypical behaviour. Phil Gregory oreornis@gmail.com ornithological writer/tour leader/tour facilitator Field Guides . . . → Read More: Chowchillas |
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