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 Cape Barren geese, The Nobbies, June 2018, Photo: Paul Cummings On a recent visit to Phillip Island, Paul Cummings sighted this Cape Barren goose family between the Nobbies and Summerlands beach. The nest from which the chicks had recently hatched was still lined with down.
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 The scarlet honeyeater. Photo: Greg Miles They seek him here, they seek him there … Nola Thorpe goes in search of a rare bird.
 The bathroom view By Nola Thorpe
May 6, 2017 BACK in the 1980s, when we bought our current house, the bathroom windows were the usual bathroom frosted glass but because I really like to see through my windows we had them replaced with clear glass. Privacy was not an issue as the bathroom is well down the side of the house with a high fence between us and the next door neighbours. Anyway we installed good blinds and any one sneaking down the side of the house would first have to negotiate with a very noisy dog.  A white-headed pigeon found its way to Nola Thorpe's garden, a long way from its usual territory. By Nola Thorpe
THIS year I’ve been lucky enough to see two birds in (or at least from) my backyard that are not usually seen in this area.  A Tasmanian boobook owl spotted at Cape Liptrap, Saturday night, October 31. Photo by Pauline Wilkinson By Nola Thorpe
MANY birdos in the local area are talking about a Tasmanian boobook owl sighted around Cape Liptrap recently.  Yellow-tailed black cockatoos. Photo: Wayne Butterworth Galahs, ibises, ravens and black cockatoos were once rare visitors to Bass Coast. Nola Thorpe charts the changing face of our birdlife.
 Cape Barren geese. Photo: Pauline Wilkinson By Nola Thorpe
ALTHOUGH the forecast was anything but promising, nine keen birdos decided to take the risk and spend the morning walking around the tracks at the Wonthaggi desal plant.
 Red-necked avocets and banded stilts at Jam Jerrup. Photo: Jack Airey By Jack Airey
ON A cool, overcast and windy morning in January, 27 members of the Ringwood Field Naturalists Club and two guests from the Peninsula Field Naturalists Club met at Jam Jerrup for an excursion to Stockyard Point, identified by BirdLife Australia as an important bird area in Western Port.  White-headed pigeon. Photo: Glen Fergus By Nola Thorpe
I HAVE started 2015 with a new bird app (The Michael Morecombe eguide to Australian Birds) for my phone so I am filling in my year's lists with fresh enthusiasm. I have lists for The Rifle Range, Campell Street Bush, Baxter's Wetland, the cemetery, Tank Hill, Screw Creek and home.  Laughing kookaburra. Photo: Leon Wilson. By Nola Thorpe
A FEW years ago we decided to put some wooden nest boxes in the trees that line the back lane that runs between our house and McMahon's Reserve in Wonthaggi. Eric had a great little book about birds and the type of nest boxes they like to use. We chose a great kookaburra box in the hope that a pair of kookaburras we often saw in the area would like to make the reserve their home. |
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