Welcome. to the Seniors club Willem, I hear that hearing aids can be a great help although not needing them myself. We lived in Rural Manitoba sometime last century and your post is reminiscent, except cannot recall any birds at all during the windswept winters, a small list of summer migrants including our first hummingbird. … Read more

Yes, I am still around and living in Northern Norway, although now mainly only lurking on the bird lists and not contributing anymore. My hearing is deteriorating steadily, I am on a waiting list for cataract operations, and I no longer drive my car in winter here. Winter this year has been much ups and … Read more

Canberra today is more smoky than ever, thick, acrid, more than 10x hazardous level.  I visited parliament house to get some snaps for the record.  This was the scene at the coat of arms above the main entrance.  GD  

The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, December 30, 2019 to Sunday, January 5, 2020: Area: SA Location: On our Rockleigh property Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) (1) Brown treecreepers disappeared in Dec 2014 (almost 12 months after the bushfire) after having been resident for 6 years. One showed … Read more

Hi All I was very interested and surprised to see 18 Magpie Geese feeding in a paddock by the intersection of Station Rd and Townsend Rd Moolap just east of Geelong yesterday morning. They then flew to the north edge of Reedy Lake at the end of Station Rd where they were feeding for some … Read more