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  1. MKinHK

    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Patch birding : Mowbray Park and Northbridge April 2024 A few nuggets of patch gold over the last few days included the addition of a flyover Plumed Egret (101), Striated Thornbill (102) and a lovely adult male Rose Robin (103) in the swamp forest at Mowbray Park. I was pleased to grab old...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Many thanks Matt. Patch posting is indeed a labour of love, but I enjoy the process for helping me to recall the day in the field as I put the post together and for having a tangible record. Delighted that it may be useful too. Northern Beaches: Red Hill, Deep Creek and Long Reef Saturday 13...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Northern Beaches: Red Hill, Deep Creek and Long Reef Saturday 13 April 2024 I decided to keep it relatively local on Saturday by birding a few areas of the Northern Beaches that are just a 30 minute drive from home. I started at Red Hill (1), which is a known site for Brush Bronzewing...
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    Birding Round Rock, TX

    Sounds like a great start hookem2010, especially with the mix of other stuff you have going on! I love birding a local patch and mine in Sydney Australia is also highly built up but nonetheless delivered species No 100 within just 8 months. My record for a day is 56 and that required some...
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    Compact Camera Suggestions? Upgrading from Canon PowerShot SX720 HS

    Hi Andy It was the previous iteration of the RX10iii that was crowned king five or six years ago, and the RX10iv just made it better! I used the Canon SX50 for three years and loved it. It was great camera to get started on bird photography when I wanted record shots of good birds, but when I...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Photospot: Australian Ibis at Mowbray Park 8 April 2024 The day after bringing up the Willoughby Ton I returned to Mowbray Park to explore the river walk that heads east between the mangroves and a low-lying casuarina stand before turning north past Chatswood Golf Course. While I picked...
  7. MKinHK

    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Mowbray Park, Willoughby 7 April 2024 After adding Crimson Rosella to my Willoughby list last weekend I decided to stop off for a break on my way back from birding out west. This proved to be a good move as I added Yellow-Thornbill and White-throated Treecreeper in the riverside trees above...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Wianamatta and Windsor Downs 7 April 2024 Viraj Sharma and I visited a couple of the relict lowland woodlands on the Cumberland Plain after being thwarted in our plans to visit Pitt Town Lagoon and a site in the Hawkesbury catchment for Chestnut Quail Thrush, Brush Bronzewing and Painted...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Central Coast Farmlands: Palm Grove and Palmdale Sunday 31 March 2024 Another productive visit to the Central Coast started with a visit to Palm Grove - the neighbouring valley to Palmdale, which receives much less coverage. It's three to four times the length of Palmdale. This was the first...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Northbridge Patch birding 1-3 April 2024 The thing about Peregrines is that they rarely hang around - so all it takes is to be looking the wrong way and you miss it. I'm sure I'll connect sooner rather than later Pete. No new patch birds today, but I did have a record count of 35 Maned Ducks...
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    Compact Camera Suggestions? Upgrading from Canon PowerShot SX720 HS

    The king of bridge cameras is the Sony RX10iv. It has a larger sensor and higher quality 28-600 zoom lens than the Nikon P900 and P1000. It is also more compact. But it It still weights in at around 1 kilo (you'd need a big and strong pocket, but a good strap/ camera bag will enable better...
  12. MKinHK

    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Thanks Pete - totally agree. I've had one fly past my office window a few times. This has no view of the sky. If its possible there its possible anywhere! I had species 98 today by visiting Mowbray Park, which is on the far western side of Willoughby in the Lane Cove area. This was a rather...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Northbridge Patch Birding January - March 2024 Having steamed out to 96 species in less than five months, my patch birding settled into a quieter pattern in the first three of months of 2024. It mostly took the form of walks round the golf course and Tunks Park, with occasional forays to...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Long Reef Golf Course and Aquatic Reserve II January & February 2023 The main reason for several subsequent visits was to seawatch during the southerly and southwesterly winds. This was a bit of a mixed bag, with lots of passage of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters in the hundreds and even thousands...
  15. MKinHK

    Birding Cadiz (& nearby)

    Such good birds! The first shot is a cracker, and the habitat beats a stretch of an A road near Shoreham, where I saw my one and only few decades ago!
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