Seasons Greetings folks. I hope you are enjoying the year end. We have a pair of Wood Ducks that periodically visit our back yard swimming pool. In addition to the expected the physical reminders of their visits, we also get the occasional egg left on the side of the pool. My understanding is that Wood … Read more

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Hi Chris, your are excused, raptors can be difficult to separate. This one is a Hobby. I believe it is a juvenile judging by the underbody, which is missing the adult’s ‘arrowheads’. The head pattern is striking, no other Australian bird of prey has it. Nevertheless the Hobby may be confused with a Peregrine, but … Read more

My mystery bird for Christmas is this raptor I photographed above the Stuart Highway on my way to Newhaven back in 2011. I have made a wild bet (usually wrong) but I would appreciate your views and reasons so I can label it correctly… just in case it is something else… https://www.ararelitus.com/birds-1 Regards Chris Shawseashore@internode.on.net+61 … Read more

I jotted down a few notes about the birds I saw at Birdlife Australia’s Gluepot Reserve while doing a little bit of volunteering over a week during early December. Lot’s of Woodswallow’s continue around the Mallee and a few of their high flying aerial foraging confederates that are associated with weather fronts made an appearance … Read more