Bird Walks

The Powerful Owl is one of those special birds that everyone wants to see (and photograph). They are nocturnal of course, so hard to spot…

The weather was good for birdwatching given it was August: slight winds (at least for the first two hours) and some sunshine. A great turnout…

A colleague posted on 14 July: ‘… saw four juvenile satin bower birds opposite our house in Aireys this morning …’. I had in mind…

The weather was very cold, but winds were ok for birdwatching, and we were off to Hospital Swamp which is at the western end of…

The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is the classic often-heard but seldom-seen bird. Recently it has been trilling away and I was surprised by the timing. Normally the…

It seems forever that I have been saying in the Bird Walk Report: ‘The weather was very good for birdwatching …’. But this month our…

As I write it is prime season for robins. Everybody and birdwatchers in particular love robins. Eastern Yellow Robins are present all year round but…

The weather was very good for birdwatching: not much wind and some sun. Gherang is a relatively sheltered spot, and the wind is generally not…

I seem to have been seeing more Wedge-tailed Eagles (wedgies) the last two months or so. For instance, on the Angair bird walk at Lot…

The weather was threatening but in the end the wind was ok for birdwatching, and no rain. There was a reasonable turn-out of eight people…