Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Tullah Sightings

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Barbara Boyle sent the following recent Tullah sightings: Pair of Great-crested Grebes, Pair of Scaly-breasted Lorikeets bathing in our...
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Blackbird Blitz !

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John Tongue writes: While repairing damage done to my garden recently, I was "inspired" (?) to pen the following literary master...
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Dust Baths

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I noticed recently a number of birds taking dust baths. The reason birds indulge in this practice appears, at least in the literature, to b...
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Who the Hell was Horsfield anyway...?

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I expect you're wondering who Horsfield was? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway! You'll be pleased to know this is the 'p...

A Horsfield's Bronze.

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While busily engaged photographing the Dusky Woodswallows in the Peter Murrell reserve recently, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, anot...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Bad Hair Day?

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Couldn't resist posting this shot of a Little Pied Cormorant drying out, as cormorants do, after a fishing trip. Obviously used to the ...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Look out for...

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It's that time of year when 2 species put on a show that's worth looking out for. The most obvious are the muttonbirds --Short-tail...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Woodswallow Action.

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I spent sometime this morning watching a group of Dusky Woodswallows in the Peter Murell Reserve at Kingston. An obvious and common bir...
Monday, January 23, 2006

More Shags on the Rocks?

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My impression in recent years is that there is an increase in the number of Black-faced Shags in the Derwent Estuary. Bill & Els ,mentio...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

Fern Tree Foray

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A few days ago I made one of my fairly rare visits to the Fern Tree Glade in the foothills of Mount Wellington. In recent years I've mai...
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Successful Immigrants

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Two success stories in the bird world in this state, are the Goldfinch and Greenfinch. At the moment they are among the most obvious of spec...