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Hi Martin, I always found around Sydney that Latham’s arrived after first full moon in August. Interested to hear of Sydney arrivals now. Best Alan Alan McBride · Photographer · Writer · Social Narbonne, Occitanie ∙ France | Melbourne, Victoria ∙ AustraliaTel: + 61 481 103 322 http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanmcbride https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanmcbride/ This e-mail and any files transmitted . . . → Read More: Latham’s Snipe arrival Hello all… Yesterday, my partner Sally Sheldon and I came across 2 separate groups of Latham’s Snipe in the Cairns region – this represents a relatively early arrival up here for this species. Flock numbers were a minimum of 4 birds in one near Port Douglas, and the other was a min . . . → Read More: Latham’s Snipe arrival I'd like to contact Rob Reed regarding Rob's ebird report of the Star Finches roosting around Karumba and offer to assist anyone interested in finding the birds. Catherine Hirsch and I are currently located in Karumba until tomorrow if anyone can pass this onto Rob or provide his contact details by PM. Thanks if . . . → Read More: Trying to contact Rob Reed Just forwarding a post I received yesterday with a nice cartoon about conservation advances on the Forty-spotted Pardalote.
Thought you might enjoy The First Dog on the Moon’s cartoon today – Click on the first box below.
———- Forwarded message ——— From: The Guardian <info@editorial.theguardian.com> . . . → Read More: Forty-spotted Pardalote The best of Guardian Opinion Australia Background: We’ve had a Brush-turkey mound in our SE QLD backyard since just after Christmas last year – very late in the season, but Spring was very hot and dry. The usual mass movements of leaf litter etc. occurred, but you get that living on the fringe. In the last week of so, . . . → Read More: Brush-turkey legalities During the winter months of 2013 there was an irruption of Black Kites in the Pilbara. The usual kites seen along the Pilbara coast are Whistling, Brahminy and Black-shouldered. Black Kites are usually few in number but in mid-2013 they arrived on mass and congregated at the Karratha landfill site. They joined in with Little . . . → Read More: Irruption of Black Kites in 2013 Dear All, It goes without saying that anyone exposed to its effects in the field, knows that Global Warming is very real. The naysayers, mostly motivated by economics, politics or just complete denial of the evidence like the rapid rise in CO2 levels paralleling human activity, ie ignorance, claim that it is a natural cycle . . . → Read More: Global Warming I don’t know how many Great Egrets you have seen at one time in one place but on two recent trips to Thompson’s Beach north of Adelaide in South Australia I’ve seen over 100 on each occasion. The details are on my blog: https://www.ararelitus.com/birds-1 I’d appreciate any information on large sitings as my experience . . . → Read More: A Siege of Great Egrets Do birds break up their territories around nesting and feeding. Our garden here in wilmington SA is a hotspot for birds, having water, multiple layers of vegetation and most of the surrounding area has been cleared. Consequently, we have lots of birds in the garden even compared to the Heritage listed bush on the . . . → Read More: nesting and feeding behaviour Gary, During the 1983 drought I saw inland dotterels on the Whyalla-Kimba road (lat 33o06.34″S in google earth). This and your observations are a long way south of where I’d normally expect to see them. I’m hearing of black honeyeaters and crimson chats further south than they are normally seen too. I remember these . . . → Read More: Inland dotterels and a false dichotomy |
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