G’day avid swift scanners The flocks of WTNT I have been seeing in the hills NE of Melbourne have been reducing in size and becoming less frequent. I am aware of for the month of April; 2 sightings in Qld. 3 for NSW, 3 sightings in ACT, 7 for Vic. 1 for SA, and 7 … Read more

Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at—  https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up  ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of the nest-young. (Odd & instructive characterisations of the falcon also appear, inconsistently, & in line with the confused … Read more

Your message already came through yesterday. Maybe you have got no response and so you think it didn’t come through. Not everyone knows the word “tiercel” as meaning male, or the odd use of “falcon” as meaning female.   I think your question is very narrow and detailed, there would not be many who have … Read more

Trying this again… ———- Forwarded message ———-From: Jla <jlukin01@gmail.com> Subject: "bold tassel hawk—" UK peregrinesTo: "birding-aus (E-mail)" <birding-aus@birding-aus.org> Greetings, fellow home-birders. Just now I'm reading a reprint of Heatherley's 1913 "Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie" (also viewable at—  https://archive.org/stream/cu31924084757206/cu31924084757206#page/n51/mode/1up  ). Records by observers of this breeding pair report the tiercel as the main carer of … Read more

A single Pacific Baza seen on Mayfair Drive ( Mulgpa NSW ) yesterday, sending local Ravens crazy. Would twitching it would be an essential activity in the days of C19 ?Walking solo or in a pair up the hill would be Exercise, which is OK, Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To … Read more