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24.01.2022 Tools and tips to help learn how to identify birds

23.01.2022 Swamp Harrier, Freeman's Reach, NSW, AU.

23.01.2022 I will be driving from Sydney up to Newcastle to check out the Lesser Yellowlegs tomorrow morning - departing 2:30AM from Peakhurst. This is only the 3rd record for this species in NSW. If you'd like a seat in the car, sing out. Back by 4pm.

22.01.2022 I have yet to get the perfect combination of lighting and an eye-level bird, but I did manage to find a pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos feeding on my trip out to Colo, just outside Sydney's northwest, yesterday morning.

20.01.2022 Black-necked Storks breeding at Hexham Swamp near Newcastle! Radio interview. https://www.abc.net.au//break/black-necked-storks/12862714

18.01.2022 Yesterday's trip out to Colo - just outside Sydney - turned up a number of beautiful birds. Perhaps the best sighting was a pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos feeding in a gum tree just above the road. The bird in the photo here is a male Satin Bowerbird - known for being jet-black when fully mature. Somehow the raised feathers and reflection of light brought out all this feather detail on this bird which, when it heard the click of my camera, turned around and looked just as black... as any other mature male. Altogether something like 14 Satin Bower birds on the day. The big winners at Colo were the pigeons though - seeing or hearing large numbers of Brown Cuckoo-Doves and Bar-shouldered Doves (about 10 each), 4 Wonga Pigeons, a Common Bronzewing and Peaceful Dove rounding out the mix. For smaller bush birds there were White-throated Gerygones and Scarlet Honeyeaters, Jacky Winters and - not so much a bush bird, but cool to see - about 10 pairs of Rainbow Bee-eaters, perched as couples along the power lines and trees then taking swoops over the road. For raptors there was an execllent view of a family of three Pacific Bazas slowly cruising down - just beside the road and slightly above the tree line. At the end there was a distant view of a single adult Peregrine Falcon, at its nest in a rocky cave, feeding a singly fluffy white chick. All in all almost 60 species seen in the morning. As a footnote, a quick detour to Bushell's Lagoon revealed the place absolutely full of water and, correspondingly, very few waterbirds. (Counter-intuitive, I know!) But two Swamp Harriers did fly low and close and an Australian Hobby landed right next to the car on arrival before flying off with a second Hobby that was out of sight nearby. A Black-shouldered Kite rounded out the raptors making the detour worth it on that front.

17.01.2022 Wow! This is actually super accurate for body shape and posture! Hooded Plover chick - critically endangered in NSW. Do your bit to protect them by not disturbing marked nesting areas on beaches and keeping dogs on leads when at the beach, except at designated leash-free beaches.

17.01.2022 Australian White Ibis - in somewhat of a natural habitat and pose - Kogarah Bay, NSW, AU.

16.01.2022 Willie Wagtail (juvenile)

15.01.2022 Common Myna, Kogarah Bay, NSW, AU.

15.01.2022 Can you find the matching feathers on the other side of the bird?

14.01.2022 Thousands of birds falling out of the sky, dead and malnourished in the US. It's hard not to wonder whether we're starting to see the collapse of ecosystems. Frightening stuff, but change can only come if we face it - and something's got to change. https://www.theguardian.com//birds-falling-out-of-the-sky-

11.01.2022 Growing rather fond of Latham's Snipe. Huge and excellent article here. https://www.swifft.net.au/cb/team_lathams_snipe_project.php

09.01.2022 Musk Lorikeet, Peakhurst, NSW, AU.

09.01.2022 #eBirdLife - planning a 3,000km birding trip and eBird goes down for 2 days for maintenance, aaaaaargh!!!! Luckily I was a little prepared though - checked all my species maps earlier this week ;) and ... all going to plan ... the guys at eBird will be back online on the day we head off. Here comes the #SydneyBirding #2020LastHurrah!

08.01.2022 Hope that if this was intentional, the coward responsible steps forward.

06.01.2022 A collection of birds seen in Sydney's north west. Get in touch if you are interested in a birding day out that way or if you'd like to target a specific species.

02.01.2022 A collection of birds seen in Sydney's south east. Get in touch if you are interested in a birding day out that way or if you'd like to target a specific species.

01.01.2022 Locations include Maddens Plains, Barren Grounds, Jerrara Dam, Stafford Farm, Shoalhaven Heads, Lake Wollumboola and more...

01.01.2022 Rose-crowned Fruit-doves turn up at a rate of perhaps 2 birds a year in the region between Sydney and the south coast. I have only seen them twice. Last year a juvenile bird was reported from Jerrara Dam, Shellharbour, and when I went there I found two. This year there have been reports of one adult and one juvnile at Shell Cove, Shellharbour. I found just the juvenile yesterday, although someone shared a photo of the adult and it is spectacular. I see a historical report (20+ years back?) of 5 in the same location - so perhaps if one spent a full day exploring all the fig trees, you might find there are more than 2 there this year, and who knows - perhaps there is one or two over at nearby Jerrara Dam too - maybe they are on the south coast in greater numbers than we realise - just a bit cryptic and in obscure locations?