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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: May 2013

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Friday, May 10, 2013. A cursory glance of the simple, raw statistics for birding the South Burnett in April 2013 would appear to suggest rather meagre pickings; a grim time, as per Allen Road. In the same month. We visited sixteen different locations to record 83 separate entries [5.18 entries per location] on Bird Journal. Certainly, at 115 species, April has the lowest monthly tally for 2013 to date:. 16 [average 7.18 species per location]. April with Musk Duck. There were ot...

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: September 2013

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Tuesday, September 10, 2013. In essence August opened with the merest trickle of birds, increased in pace as the month proceeded and finally departed the 2013 calendar with an exciting flurry. It was the obverse of. Which suffered from the fact that Fay and I ventured further afield around the South Burnett, indeed even further, Beyond the Pale on occasions; the more we wandered, the less time we had to concentrate on Allen Road. The latter remains something of an enigma. We en...

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BIRDING BEYOND the PALE : Wambo Bird Trails

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BIRDING BEYOND the PALE. Tales from a recycled birder. Saturday, 17 August 2013. Bear with me a moment. It took a little longer in the coming than I had originally anticipated but come it must and come it has. As intimated in the opening crescendo, Raison d’etre, my entrance into the Bloggershpere, via Staffordshire Stray. It aided me in my pre-departure research and we even met a couple of birding bloggers at Belvide Reservoir. However, on our return to Australia, the blog suddenly appeared moribund.

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: September 2011

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Sunday, September 25, 2011. It was not so long ago that I coined the expression Spring is Springing. I based it on the noticeable nesting activity of several resident species, such as the Noisy Miner. Above all, however, it was the return of the two friarbirds, the Noisy Friarbird. And, a little later, the Little Friarbird. They have long been among the earliest heralds of approaching summer in this part of the world. Fay had already noted the arrival of the Olive-backed Oriole.

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: November 2011

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Monday, November 7, 2011. WALKING TRACK 1.8km. We did nevertheless make the effort on Sunday. We opted for the latter and were almost immediately gob-smacked [pleasantly surprised] at the quality of the birding. No sooner had we turned the first corner than we found ourselves crossing Reedy Creek via a concrete culvert and there ahead of us was a pair of Olive-backed Orioles. With a pair of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters. In an adjoining tree. And a small troupe of Apostlebirds.

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: October 2013

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Monday, October 14, 2013. Given that Fay and I managed to visit only 16 of the now 80 different established locations spread out across the region one would have expected the monthly tally to be rather on the low side; not as low as the 28 recorded species of September 2010 when we spent most of that month in the U.K. but nevertheless a paltry total would not have surprised. Nothing of the sort eventuated. And Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata. Of these the honeyeaters top...

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: June 2013

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Friday, June 14, 2013. Circuits and Black Kites. At one point I was tempted to call this blog “The Month of the Raptor.”. It was certainly an amazing month for raptors. Not only was there the Black Kite Milvus migrans. Of the title but we spotted eight other diurnal birds of prey during May, some of them real gems in anyone’s reckoning. The Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus. Has become almost a commonplace bird, putting in eight appearances on its own. At the Black Creek Dam.

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: July 2013

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Friday, July 5, 2013. One comes to learn not to expect too much from birding in June. It’s end of semester time; report cards, parent-teacher interviews and the collation of data for the Education Authorities. Following the 2011 Census, Fay and I were randomly selected by the. Australian Bureau of Statistics. To be tracked on a monthly basis for the next eight months. Her giggle turned to a gasp as each month I rattled off. As an old wag once quipped, “ Teachers! On 10 June we ...

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: March 2012

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Saturday, March 17, 2012. The Suburu before the prang. I’ve spent months laying the blame for my recent tardiness in maintaining my blogs on the ever-increasing pressure of coming to grips with the new Australian Curriculum which kicked off this year in Queensland. That excuse still holds true but the prang on my 42nd wedding anniversary didn’t help the cause of birding the South Burnett. Matters finally took a turn for the better last week. The issue of which panel beater ...

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT: February 2012

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BIRDING the SOUTH BURNETT. Monday, February 20, 2012. Looking down onto corner of Meandu Creek Dam from jetty-like structure. While the blogs here may be slowing down, entirely due to work pressures, our relentless search for the birds of Tarong Power Station continues almost unabated. We go out whenever time and circumstances permit. The aftermath was perhaps just as telling for aspiring birders in the South Burnett. Most minor roads [gravel or simply grass tracks] became unpassable. Given the m...We fo...