It's all about the birds
3x beak & headshots ATTACHED ———- Forwarded message ———From: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Subject: Fwd: which hawk ?To: Judith L-A <jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au> Thanks, guys. As you see, the various measurements fall between the 2 species, & I remain uncertain. The bird is in the fridge so I can still photograph it, & will add close-ups of the … Read more
Down Under some of the Thornbill’s are a bother as are their cousins the Jerry Gone’s because they are small, hide in things, flit about without any consideration for people watching them and are similar looking (the birds not the people). I have a Buff-rumped Thornbill that I know because it had just been captured … Read more
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 Inner South … Read more
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
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