With ‘morning ball’ it is important not to pelt the ball into a tree containing a nesting magpie or butcherbird. However, the game late this morning (Rocky Knob Park, Narrabundah) was interrupted by a sound first taken to come from a heavy vehicle reversing at one of the nearby housing redevelopment projects in . . . → Read More: Sounds of South Canberra
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Greetings, all. Here are measurements for an Accipiter found dead yesterday on the back landing here, beneath a hard-sheltered water bowl frequented by local passerines. These measurements I’ve compared with the following refs (& their diagrams), reaching an uncertain conclusion— Menkhorst et al, 2017 Simpson & Day, 2004 Debus, 1998 Morcombe, 2000 * The bird’s . . . → Read More: which hawk ? Just what I did not need today was yet another reason to be upset…. this time due to a couple of idiot photographers, a man and woman in late middle age both sporting 300mm lenses or some such, and who had scaled a farm fence near the Curtain Fig at Yungaburra and were walking across . . . → Read More: Sarus Cranes being disturbed by toggers I have just finished writing a book on the birds of the Illawarra and I intend to self publish it. 440 species have been recorded within the Illawarra region and members of Illawarra Birders have supplied most of the photos needed for the book. I am still missing photos for 58 species which are . . . → Read More: Photos needed for book At least 50/60 YTBCs flew over 13th Beach golf course (Barwon Heads) yesterday – was a wonderful sight and occurs about this time most years. Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org I agree that this is not a Golden/Yellow-crowned Bishop (Euplectes after). Bishops have eclipse plumages and in winter are dull brown and sparrow-like. If it was a male moulting into breeding plumage (too early) the black and yellow feathers would be in different places on the bird. The yellow of bishops is very intense unlike . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 82, Issue 18 For those who may find this of interest… In the past 2 to 4 weeks there’s been very good numbers of Black-chinned (Golden-backed) Honeyeaters in both the Mt Molloy and Wondecla districts just inland from Cairns, FNQ. They are very golden-backed, however their naked skin above the eyes is a . . . → Read More: Black-chinned Honeyeater, Cairns region, FNQ The bird is a yellow South African Bishop I think. Possibly remnant of a cony of escapees that was once living somewhere along the Hawksbury and lower Murray, but not to my knowledge reported for years. Came to me at 2.00 am. Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings . . . → Read More: ? Yellow Bishop |
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