As Webmaster for BOCA I get statistical reports on our website traffic. It was interesting to note that on Saturday we had our quietest Saturday in a long time – which implies to me that either birders were so engrossed in the election that they had no time for looking at other websites – or … Read more

Hello Birding-Aus people, A while back the Bureau of Meteorology changed the appearance of its website. Until today I had not explored the site. It has has brilliant new interactive charts that bird watchers planning an outing, camp or pelagic could find very useful. The main interactive map page is: http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer/index.shtml This gives the current … Read more

Hi all, In October friends from overseas (USA and Germany) will be visiting us. Although we were originally planning to fly into Cairns and drive up to Cape York, I changed my mind and would like to travel with them into the (currently not so) dry outback to enjoy this rare POST-rain phenomenon. I was … Read more

Ruth and I are currently in Port Augusta en route to Alice Springs. Our planned route was via Lyndhurst and Oodnadatta Track (with small diversion along Strezlecki Track to Mount Lyndhurst Station). However I have found out that Oodnadatta Track, Strezlecki Track and most of Birdsville Track are CLOSED due to heavy rain, with at … Read more

EARLY AUTUMN IN TROMSØ, N.NORWAY 2010 has been the wettest summer ever in Tromsø, not that we normally have all that much precipitation compared to many other places; it has been cool too, never above 20*C. But by now the weather has improved and we can call it quite nice autumn weather: calm, often quite … Read more