
Go Birding Tours Ocean Grove is home to many mongrel Lorikeets. They have been resident for several decades and consist of cross breeds between Rainbow, Musk and Scaly-breasted. These few frequent our backyard.

Go Birding Tours saw two Spotted Pardalotes at Blue Waters Lake this afternoon. A first for my records in this area. Look closley and you'll see a small white berry from a Coastal Bearded-heath in his mouth.

Go Birding Tours The weather was too hot for the birds this morning, but not for this Jacky Lizard out sunning himself on a fence post.

Go Birding Tours Mums, dads and chicks galore at the Lake this evening. Chesnut Teal, Purple Swamphens, Dusky Moorhens, Pacific Black Duck, Willie Wagtails and Australian Wood Duck - all there with numerous chicks. First of the retuning Latham's Snipe was also spotted.

Go Birding Tours has observed thousands of White-browed Woodswallows at many locations around the peninsula today. Woodswallows arrive in spring. This year there has been a remarkable and unusual erruption of large number of this species.

Birds observed at the Lake in October 2009 4 New species obsevered at the Lake (for me anyway!): Sacred Kingfisher ...

Go Birding Tours found numerous birds breeding at Blue Waters Lake - 5 Hoary-headed Grebes nesting; young Pied Currawong in the nest; two Coots nesting; Willie Wagtail sitting on a nest; parent Purple Swamphens with 4 chicks; Pacific Black Duck with 8 chicks, and a White-Plumed Honeyeater seen at a nest (this one was hard to spot). Great to see bird numbers building.

Anette Claassen This is very gøod news & interesting data. Go more birding.
































