Dear Fellow birders, So, I am starting to produce videos on nature and birding. I made a short one on Carleton University — it’s a University campus in Ottawa, Canada: I feature a few birds with some video. This is my first attempt at a ‘nature documentary’ and I’m still acquiring some gear that will … Read more

What I sent last night appears to have not gone through yet. Maybe best just to call it sunning when that is what it is and leave the word anting to when there are ants. Easy. But they may be connected. This sunning behaviour (and certainly not just magpies) often has the birds in a … Read more

For years I’ve been watching magpies in Blackheath, regardless of the temperature, mild or red-hot, lying down in a sort of trance-like state. But they are alert. Someone somewhere mentioned that they are “anting”. Any published papers and evidence available on what they are actually doing?   Thanks   David Jackson

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, October 19, 2020 to Sunday, October 25, 2020: Area: SA Location: Barrage Goolwa Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (1) single bird in water dept land behind barrage Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) (60) birds were feeding with other shorebirds near the second pull … Read more