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Check before mowing
Saved a Tawny Grassbird family from ‘disaster’ today, the paddock was going to be ‘slashed’ to remove the rampant ‘cobblers-pegs’ weed (Bidens pilosa) ….that which he is ‘perched’ on!
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Soon to be heading ‘north-bound’ waders
In early-March I received the opportunity to assist in a count of wading-birds at high-tide at Manly Marina in South-east Queensland. The birds will soon be heading northwards to their ‘breeding-grounds’ in Siberia and north-east Asia and many are starting to moult into their ‘breeding-plumage’. I was asked to help find and photograph ‘flagged’ birds […]
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Finches at Draper (SE Qld) January 2020
Had a great day with friends at “The Crossing”, a property near Draper last Sunday , of the 60+ species seen these two finches allowed the best-footage.
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Albert’s Lyrebird at Lamington Jan 2020
Ran into a couple of Albert’s Lyrebird near the O’Reilly’s Guest-house last week , filmed this one at the start of the Border Track, unfortunately the cicadas were also ‘singing’….. There were plenty of bowerbirds, this one had a bath near the main-reception. Also close to the reception a ‘tuckeroo’ tree provided fruits for the […]
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Birding in a ‘Heatwave’
Today was a ‘hot-shocker’, apparently over 40° Celsius after lunch, fortunately Tania (the ‘home-owner’) had realized the consequences and put plenty of ‘bird-baths’ out. At around one PM, I was surprised to hear a Spectacled Monarch calling nearby and observed a nice adult bird arriving to ‘quench’ his thirst. Soon more species arrived and I […]
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Western Australia November 2019
For several years I’ve been planning a birding trip to south-west WA and in November I was fortunate to be invited to share some of my friends Dan Mantle and Plaxy Barratt’s rare ‘spare-time’ in Perth and take a hire-car to the Stirling Ranges and Cheyne Beach. On arrival on an early-November Friday, the weather […]
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An ‘Odd-couple’
Filmed this Pale-headed Rosella appearing to ‘chum-up’ to his friend the Laughing Kookaburra in Dayboro recently (13/09/2019)…..or could he be asking him politely to ‘Go-away’? Apologies for the ‘unsteady-footage’, no tripod …..
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Birdsville birding trip, August 2019
From mid to late-August 2019 four of us travelled to Birdsville as we had been told that conditions were very favourable, rains earlier in the year had passed through the region on it’s way to Lake Eyre. We visited Quilpie, Windorah, Birdsville, Koonchera (SA), Bowra Sanctuary and Bollon. These are images and clips of some […]
