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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: August 2014
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Sunday, 17 August 2014. The Bee and the Wasp. Back in November 2012, the bird-banding at our regular site at The Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve, not far from West Wyalong in central-west New South Wales, was keeping us occupied if not busy, and I had time to follow the activities of several solitary bees that I was not aware of having noticed on any previous trips. A solitary bee hovering just above the ground, looking to excavate a burrow. I spent several minu...
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The Cuckoo's Nest: Esperance in December
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A blog about my birding adventures and observations in my home state of Western Australia. Saturday, 19 December 2015. On a recent trip to Esperance on Western Australia's south coast, I was able to spend a bit of time birding. We went via Kalgoorlie to break up the nine hour drive and stayed a night there. In the early hours of the morning I drove out of Kal to the Kurrawang Nature Reserve. This yielded very little - just a couple of White-fronted Honeyeaters. Cape Barren Goose, Esperance Golf Course.
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: May 2015
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Friday, 29 May 2015. Canberra Autumn Mushroom Soup. It seems that for most people who live in Canberra, autumn is a favourite season. A time of cooler temperatures; a reprieve from the often unrelenting heat of a long dry summer, and a change to clear, crisp, sunny days. A time of softer light, and of course, the turning of the leaves from summer green through an almost surreal palette of vibrant yellows, reds, and oranges. Japanese Maple leaf, 8 May 2015.
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: Top End Dragonflies
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Friday, 24 July 2015. In the second half of May, Karen and I took off for Darwin. The minimum overnight temperatures in Canberra in the days preceding our departure had bottomed out at -6 C and we were very much looking forward to the tropical heat of Darwin: low to mid 30s during the day and overnight dropping to as cold as 20 C! The underlying reason for the Trip was Karen’s niece’s wedding (thanks Emily! Wedding on a Darwin sand bar. Just to put this into ...
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: April 2014
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Wednesday, 30 April 2014. Bowra Station is a property that up until a few years ago was run as a family grazing operation, just outside of Cunnamulla in outback Queensland. Now it is owned and run by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy as a nature reserve, and birds are especially bounteous. BirdLife Australia’s magazine. Hall’s Babblers ( Pomatostomus halli. We saw quite a few Emus ( Dromaius novaehollandiae. On the drive up to Bowra, as well as on the prope...
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: January 2015
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Wednesday, 28 January 2015. Lake Wollumboola Sand Plovers. Following my previous post about my White-rumped Sandpiper twitch to Lake Wollumboola on 13 January, I received an email from Chris Brandis about the sand plovers that have been being reported from Lake Wollumboola. In my original post I included in the list of birds seen a single Lesser Sand Plover ( Charadrius mongolus. Has this to say:. In a mixed flock of waders, the Large Sand Plover. So Chris's ...
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: June 2015
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Sunday, 28 June 2015. The weather was predominantly cool and quite windy. We did some essentially car-based touristing, including a drive down to the Bodalla cheese factory and café on one of the days, as well as a fair bit of local walking, but we had a mostly quiet relaxed long weekend. Despite the windy conditions, this pelican thought it was a good idea to try to perch on the power lines down at the Mossy Point jetty. Connecting isthmus has repeatedly bee...
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: October 2014
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. James in his speed boat at Pretty Beach, October 2004. James at Pretty Beach, October 2004. The Sydney Basin stretches from South Durras in the south to Newcastle in the north, reaches west to Lithgow, Mudgee and north-west of Muswellbrook, and east to the edge of the continental shelf some 30 odd kilometres offshore. Uplifting of the area during the middle Triassic about 230 million years ago raised the whole basin,. At Pretty Beach...
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany: July 2015
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HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany. Friday, 24 July 2015. In the second half of May, Karen and I took off for Darwin. The minimum overnight temperatures in Canberra in the days preceding our departure had bottomed out at -6 C and we were very much looking forward to the tropical heat of Darwin: low to mid 30s during the day and overnight dropping to as cold as 20 C! The underlying reason for the Trip was Karen’s niece’s wedding (thanks Emily! Wedding on a Darwin sand bar. Just to put this into ...
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The Cuckoo's Nest: February 2015
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A blog about my birding adventures and observations in my home state of Western Australia. Sunday, 8 February 2015. Hamilton Freeway Interchange Lakes 1 and 2. Just west of the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel is a pair of lakes called Hamilton Freeway Interchange Lakes 1 and 2. I've driven past this place a hundred times and so have most Perthites but I had no idea what was there until this weekend. Dusky Moorhen with chick. Hardhead Ducks and an Australasian Grebe. The water quality in the lakes is improvi...
