Birds in Tasmania

Tasmania,island state of Australia. Alan Fletcher's occasional blog about the enjoyment of birding in Tasmania.If your interest is images, visit my pbase site (see "links"). All images are copyright owned by their authors. If you wish to use any, please ask E-mail: tassiebirds@iinet.net.au

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Changing Habitat

I've always been intrigued by the ever changing breakdown of species that inhabit my back garden. Over the years a number of large trees...

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Yellow-rumps

I was returning from Little Swanport on Monday (see posting below), and pulled in to the side of the road, just South of the Triabunna bridg...

Monday, June 26, 2006

Saltworks Excursion

On a beautiful Winters morning after a hard frost, I decided on a foray to the Saltworks Reserve, North of Triabunna. Scenically, probably ...

Friday, June 23, 2006

Small Influx and A Puzzle

I suppose that one advantage of walking the same area frequently, is that you may notice small nuances of bird behaviour or numbers. My almo...

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Wedgetail Encounter

I have a confession to make! Although I wrote about visiting duck haunts in the previous blog, the real highlight of the morning was an enco...

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Ducks Abound

Drove round several of t he local (Eastern Shore) duck haunts this morning and noted an increase in the numb ers over last month. Of most in...

Monday, June 19, 2006

Black & White

There are two groups of birds that especially test the skills of photographers, the black ones and the white ones. While it's not diffic...

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Wintering Summer Birds

Once widely known as the Summer Bird, the Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is in the main (as the old name implies), a Summer migrant to Tasmania. ...

Thursday, June 15, 2006

More Gannets

Another blustery Nor' Westerly wind in the River Derwent this morning and as I hoped, there were Australasian Gannets fishing fairly cl...

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Introduced Or Not?

I was drawing up a list of Tasmanian Birds recently, using a number of sources, and I came upon a dilemma. What constitutes an introduced sp...

Monday, June 12, 2006

Kelps Cause Concern

My blog on Pacific Gulls coincided with Birds Tasmania's Annual Gull Count in South East Tasmania -- reported in today's Mercury ne...

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