Its when I do a stint of wader watching that I get my just deserts, they are my Waterloo… Thanks to all who helped me with the Whistler last week. https://www.ararelitus.com/mystery-birds-1 Is the next little puzzle for my on-going bird education. Chris Shaw seashore@internode.on.net +61 409 675912 Experts possess more data than judgment.COLIN POWELL, attributed, Doing Business in the New . . . → Read More: A Wader Shade of Pale
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For sale Swarovski ATS 80 spotting scope with a 20-60 zoom eyepiece. Scope comes with a stay-on-case. Purchased new from Bintel in 2016, so it has 6 years left on the warranty (10 years). Currently scope and eyepiece retail for $3249 and the stay on case for an additional $299. Total $3548 For the digiscoper, I will include a universal . . . → Read More: Advertisement: For sale Swarovski ATS 80 spotting scope with 20-60 zoom eye piece The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, June 22, 2020 to Sunday, June 28, 2020: Area: SA Location: Barrananna Gorge, Gammon Ranges Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) (12) There were a couple of waterholes in Barrananna Gorge at most 30 metres by 10 metres. I think I have seen . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Once more around the Balsfjord, a month late Every year, in the first half of May, I drive the c 250 km long drive ‘around the Balsfjord’, the big and typically Norwegian fjord that stretches c 100 km south from Tromsø (N. Norway) and of which the sounds around Tromsøya constitute the sill. In . . . → Read More: Once moee around the Balsfjord, a month late Really interesting to read these comments but frustrating not knowing what area you are all from (apart from Kim!) 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 Like many other Australians, I have been working at home during the Covid Crisis. I’ve found the best place to work is on a table on the back deck of my house, where I am out with the birdlife. The best birds from the deck during that time were a couple of Glossy Blacks flying . . . → Read More: Bathing birds May not be that great. Fairfax is running an item today – if you can’t access it there is an earlier publication – phys.org/news/2020-06-mysterious-australian-night-parrots-dead.html 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 The quills were intact, sharp and all neatly facing the same way. I did not examine the scats in detail to determine if there was any blood. This ability of the canine bowel was also demonstrated in a photograph of an X-ray (I think it was in a Veterinary Surgery text) showing 23 (?) thumb . . . → Read More: Echidna quills Re Geoff Ryan’s obs of Echidna quills in Dingo scars being aligned. Were they sharp end backward? Were they complete or broken up? Was there any blood in the scats ? TIA Michael Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2020, at 2:00 am, birding-aus-request@birding-aus.org wrote: >> >> >> Birding-Aus mailing list . . . → Read More: Birding-Aus Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9 Many years ago, at Nadgee Nature Reserve, I saw several dingo faeces composed mainly of Echidna quills. The quills, by necessity, were all carefully aligned. The canine bowel is a clever organ, perhaps the Acccipritiformes gullet has the same abilities. Geoff |
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