Thursday, July 12, 2012

Another Winter Cuckoo

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     As any regular reader would have noticed, I'm a frequent visitor to the Mortimer Bay reserve at Sandford. I often just drop in on m...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

The First Cuckoo of Winter?

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 A few days ago, during a break in the "indifferent" weather, I set forth to visit some of the local traps. The first few seemed...
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Friday, June 01, 2012

Pardalotes........40 Spots or Not ?

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I had taken my son and granddaughter, Jade, to Fossil Cove, near Blackman's Bay. Jade has a new found interest in fossils which needs t...
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Patience Rewarded.....Pacific Gull

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Interactions between birds are always interesting, and it's easy to second guess the outcome, as I did on this occasion. I had briefly ...
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Monday, April 02, 2012

French Visitor from the LPO

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I'm often asked to guide visiting birders around some of the local  birding sites and almost invariably decline, but I was recently so...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Shag Bay Bluewings & more

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A passing remark by my son, an occasional, but experienced birder, about seeing "bluewings and firetails" at Shag Bay, inspi...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Cooperation.......Little Black Cormorant

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A heavily overcast day, threatening rain, I opted to catch up on one of the many chores that I usually put off to go birding. This one e...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Season's Greetings

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                                   Have a happy and safe Christmas and New Year                             I recently photographe...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Victorian Visitor......Pied Oystercatcher

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 I stopped off briefly at Lauderdale Spit recently en route to Pipeclay Lagoon. It's become almost a ritual and I rarely spend more t...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

The Fence Sitters

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A few weeks back, I had returned to Pipeclay Lagoon to try to find a single Sanderling (a small migrant wader) I had seen there a few days...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Always a Challenge....Pink Robin

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One of my favourite birds is the Pink Robin, but they are often elusive, live in dense forest, and are mainly dark in colour and photographi...
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