I received the  Western Treatment Plant access permit renewal email below a few days ago. Not sure if everyone's permit expires the same day. Of note is the fact that they're no longer splitting it into Special and General access areas. All keys are eventually going to open the gates in both areas. Peter Shute ———- … Read more

A flock of twelve WTNs briefly over Avoca Beach yesterday morning, despite clear skies apart from a little stratus and scattered balls of cumulus. Large storms followed later in the day/night Happy Birding in the New Year Michael Sent from my iPhone Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org

The objectives of the South Australian Draft Pastoral Bill, are in my view, no different from deforesting a rainforest… probable destruction of a environment that won’t ever recover all for the benefit of a few… … when are Governments going to take their stewardship of our already degraded environment responsibly by showing some foresight. While … Read more

‘Endothermic vertebrates tend to be represented by larger forms in the colder parts of their range than in the warmer parts’. I was thinking about this when consulting Schodde’s Directory of Australian Passerines recently. There is much discussion under Australian Magpie as to whether white backs and black backs define subspecies, but Schodde doesn’t comment … Read more

We managed to travel yesterday from Canberra to Qld (between delta and omicron) and are at Eungella currently. I went up to to the Chelmans Rd site (via Dalrymple Road) this morning and found one Eungella Honeyeater feeding in a tree just behind the gate at the end of the road. I also saw one … Read more