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© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
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Birds for [2024-04-05 Fri], revisit Lake McIntyre
Back at Lake McIntyre again (Millicent, SA), and a walk around the lake this time. At the second bird hide Jo spotted a small bird moving out on the mudflats, then slowly we counted more and more. Five Black fronted dotterel scurrying back and forth. One more for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-04 Thu], Canunda National Park, SA
A windy day for our bushwalk to the Coola ruins, nothing much to see because of that … some unidentified medium-sized raptors, and emu, plenty of them seen on the drive in, and a few on the 8km hike. Definitely not a bird I see often in the wild, certainly one for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-03 Wed], Lake McIntyre, SA
A short ride out of town to the wetlands in a rehabilitated quarry, then a slow loop around the lake – stupidly forgetting to bring out binoculars. Plenty of the usual suspects and three definite unusual spottings for the #birdsseenin2024 list, in the order seen they are: Blue-billed duck Lathams snipe Pied stiltBirds seen [2024-01-24 Wed]; driving Melbourne to Bright, then cycling to Wandiligong
Some first sightings of the year, more for the #birdsseenin2024 list Wedge-tailed Eagle – Hume highway, Craigeburn Black-faced Cuckooshrike – Hume highway, Euroa Red-browed finch – Wandiligong Satin bowerbird (f) – Bright Gang-Gang Cockatoo – BrightBirds seen [2024-01-03 Wed], Lorne to Melbourne
Here we go, birds on the home from Lorne to home for my first sightings of the year for the #birdsseenin2024 list Little corella King parrot White-faced heron Letter-winged kite Brown falcon Myna Pigeon – Lara Starling – Werribee Peewee Rainbow lorikeet – Hughesdale Chestnut teal – Glen Iris Pukeko – Glen Iris Turtle dove – Hughesdale2023/1021/1535 – AussieBirdCount – Boyd Park, Murrumbeena, Vic.
Date Saturday 21 October 2023 Time 3:35 pm Duration 20 minutes Observers 1 Sightings: Rainbow Lorikeet × 8 Tawny Frogmouth × 2 Noisy Miner × 15 Grey Butcherbird × 3 Spotted Dove × 2 Australian Magpie × 2 Magpie-lark × 1 Pied Currawong × 12023/1021/1310 – AussieBirdCount – Suburban garden, Hughesdale, Vic.
Date Saturday 21 October 2023 Time 1:10 pm Duration 20 minutes Observers 1 Sightings: Rainbow Lorikeet × 2 Grey Butcherbird × 1 Common Blackbird × 1 Rock Dove × 3 Common Myna × 9 Magpie-lark × 1 Spotted Dove × 1 Red Wattlebird × 6 Australian Magpie × 2late afternoon with the sun starting to get low, the blackbird[3] is loudly calling in the bay tree
The mudlarks[1] seem to have been noisy all day – all week and month really – and the Rainbow lorikeets[2] are shrieking endlessly in the flowering callistemon, but as it cools down in the afternoon the blackbird[3] takes over [1] Magpie-lark [2] Rainbow lorikeet [3] Common blackbirdMaleny birds [2023-07-11 Tue]
Day walk around Maleny, and visit to a rainforest park, some lifers: Yellow-throated scrubwren Green catbird – heard Eastern whipbird – heard Laughing kookaburra Letter-winged kite Straw-necked ibis Magpie Pied currawong Rainbow lorikeet Logrunner Blue-faced honeyeater Thornbill (sp.) Cattle egret Australian ravenDay of the grey butcherbird[1]
Breakfast this morning and we could here them calling constantly, at least a pair, possibly more. Back and forth between different outposts a few trees one side or the other of the house. Then leaving work this afternoon what did I hear? Another pair in the gum trees around the university calling back and forth to each other [1] Grey butcherbirdlunchtime garden visitor – a Grey butcherbird[1] on the back deck
We often hear them calling in the trees around the park but don’t see them much, a bit of a surprise when I walked into the kitchen at lunchtime to see one suddenly fly up off the back deck. I think it was collecting spiders or insects from all the webs when I started it, then flew up into the plum tree and watched me for a minute or so then flew off across the neighbour’s garden when I went outside for a better lookWeereewa wildlife for [2022-01-30 Sun]
Early morning ride. Flocks of Eastern Rosellas[1], some crimson[2] too. Magpies[3]. The grebe[4] nest nearest the road now has 2 eggs. An unidentified hawk or harrier. One swamp wallaby[5] up on the escarpment and later a few mobs of roos[6]. Thick clouds of little flies and a few dragonflies, the rest waiting for more sun. Rabbits zoom across the road, some very close. [1] Eastern rosella [2] Crimson rosella [3] Australian magpie [4] Australasian grebe [5] Swamp wallaby [6] Eastern grey kangarooOver the six weeks from
to , what birds can I see while in “COVID-19, Stage 4 lockdown” at home. Restricted to one exercise outing per day, 5km range, 1 hour maximum.Stage 4 lockdown was extended, so I extended my isobirding…
…until
which was our last day restricted to five kilometres.Grand total; 46 species (as of 2020-10-28 Wed).
Amusingly, within days of the lockdown ending I saw a first for me, a couple of Royal Spoonbill in the Huntingdale wetlands.
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.