Tag: birding
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Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park is Wonderful in late Spring.
Hard going for this young eucalypt growing in a small crevice on this large granite outcrop at Mt Pilot. View from Mt Pilot, looking NW. There are large outcrops of granite across the Park. https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/chiltern-mt-pilot-national-park These images were taken in mid October in North East Victoria, Australia. The Park is a well known birding hotspot.…
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Norfolk Island Trip Rap Up
Here is a snapshop of some images from our September 2025 visit. Our bird list was fairly limited. eBird records shows 132 species have been observed. We visited before the main migrating shorebirds, but we still saw lots of interesting new birds. The Island is an important stopover point on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway look…
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Masters of Disguise.
Tawny Frogmouths are certainly an unusual nocturnal bird species. They are reasonably common across Australia although they are very difficult to locate. They can even be found in the leafy suburbs of our major cities if you are lucky. Their plumage resembles the bark of trees which allows them to blend in and they will…
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Round 3 Norfolk Island a Bird Haven.
The Masked Booby influx was just beginning when we visited (3rd to 10th September 2025). This species is one of the first to arrive, on this occassion we were at Point Howe on the north eastern tip of the island. They just find a grassy patch and plonk down for a nest place. I joined…
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Birdwatching in Winton Wetlands: Key Highlights and a few Species Sightings
We took a trip to Winton Wetlands recently to follow up on previous sitings of Swift Parrots. We returned to 11 Mile Creek Woodland (part of the Reserve) hoping to see them again, but they had moved on. There have been further reports of Swifts in the adjacent Warby Range National Park in recent days.…
Walking Glenrowan and Beyond 