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  1. MikeMules

    About Vultures and Australia...

    That won't have happened. The main extinction period for Australian megafauna (excluding those that are still around today of course) was between approx. 60,000 and 10,000 years ago, and fossil Old World Vultures have been found dating back to between 10-15 million years ago (see...
  2. MikeMules

    Low budget binocular – could such, in some case, as the first ones for a newbie, be worth buying?

    If you're beginning, you don't need a high-end pair of binoculars. I don't know your price-range or how the pricing works in the UK compared to Australia, but you can pick up a pair of perfectly useable porro-prism binoculars from Olympus, Nikon, Bushnell or Olympus for $200 AUD or less. The...
  3. MikeMules

    Outlook not behaving

    Microsoft Outlook bug prevents viewing or creating email worldwide
  4. MikeMules

    Outlook not behaving

    I'm in at work (yes, it's time to start work in Australia) and our ICT person has just fixed this problem - it is a new, know bug in Office (from yesterday) and he rolled back the recent office update, resolving the problem. If you have Office 365, accessing Outlook via your browser gives you...
  5. MikeMules

    South East Coast - Australia

    Hi ParaBird, welcome! And coincidentally enough, your bird is a Welcome Swallow.
  6. MikeMules

    Perth Australia . Kestrel ?

    It looks more like a Collared Sparrowhawk to my mind (but by no means certain)- there doesn't appear to be a pronounced brow-ridge and there is the hint of the blue on the beak extending past the cere (but that could well be an artefact of the photo/light). The overall proportions of the head to...
  7. MikeMules

    FZ80/FZ300/SX70 choice - any thoughts?

    Thanks everyone for the responses, and it seems that the discussion here is going to help others too, which is great. In the end though, the amount the canon and the FZ300 dropped by was still outside my budget, and still over $300 more than the FZ80 went to, so I now own an FZ80. It was either...
  8. MikeMules

    FZ80/FZ300/SX70 choice - any thoughts?

    Hi all, with a small but acceptable tax return in the bank and Black Friday approaching, I'm looking at replacing my DSLR with its 300mm lens with a super-zoom bridge camera. I'm not interested in upgrading the lens and the body is having issues with talking to the aperture on my current...
  9. MikeMules

    external microphone for smart phone

    to add to this thread, I use a Boya BY-MM1 mini shotgun microphone into an Android smartphone. Results are pretty good: the links here are to a Grey Butcherbird taken in windy weather in the rain, 20m from a main road, and a Scarlet Honeyeater that was 20-30m away, but surrounded by other birds...
  10. MikeMules

    For the health of our eyes when we look with binoculars ..

    That's not due to living in bright locations - if it were, we would expect to see non-indigenous people living in the same area have a similar incidence of eye disease. They don't. Eye disease in indigenous populations in places such as the Northern Territory is mainly linked to level of...
  11. MikeMules

    Iphone microphone with wind noise cancelling

    I'm not the OP, but I have started using the BY-MM1 with my Nokia Android phone for recording birds, and yes it is a major step-up from the phone's mic., especially with the windsock on. Directionality of it is decent, better of course the closer the microphone is to the target and so, so much...
  12. MikeMules

    Australia - Blue Mountains - Geewhizzit ??

    A clear Brown Thornbill. Wrong area (closest eBird record is over 100km to the west of the Blue Mountains) and wrong coloration (particularly the forehead) for an Inland Thornbill, the only other one to confuse it with.
  13. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    By The Numbers Birds seen: 123 Birds heard but not seen: 3 (malleefowl, quail-thrush, boobook) Lifers: 4 Victorian List additions: 10 Year List additions: 48 Kilometres travelled: 1327 First bird: Little Raven Last bird: White-necked Heron Thanks for reading!|=)|
  14. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    Day 4 - Wyperfeld - Nhill - Little Desert - Home The last day of my trip started as usual with a 5:45 getup time, a little harder to do this morning as the wind dying away and clear night saw me greeted by a frosty morning, with ice on the tent fly, the car and all around the campsite. After...
  15. MikeMules

    Thornbill, Australia

    Yes, Brown Thornbill. Lack of streaking on the ear-coverts, buff vent and brown wash on the frons all separate it from Striated.
  16. MikeMules

    Mystery, Australia

    Yes, Yellow-faced Honeyeater
  17. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    DAY 3 - WYPERFELD (southern section) Well, my overly optimistic hopes of another still morning weren’t to be - the wind, if anything, increased overnight and the temperature dropped to about 6 degrees. Then as I got up at quarter to 6, it started raining. What a glorious morning it was...
  18. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    and some more of the Day 2 birds Including a Red-capped Robin going cuckoo at a Pallid Cuckoo, an out-of-focus Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Gilbert's Whistler, Black-eared Cuckoo and Southern Whiteface.
  19. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    DAY 2 WYPERFELD (Casuarina) - WYPERFELD (Wonga) My day started before it dawned, with Australian Boobooks calling overnight, and I was up about half an hour before the sun was in order to get out and looking as early as possible. Fortunately, the wind had died down during the night so I was...
  20. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    Cheers guys, I'll have the next installment up in about half an hour or so
  21. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    some of the day 1 birds Apologies for the poor quality of the photos. They're meant to be record shots, not to have any particular photographic merit. Birds are Southern Scrub-Robin, Blue-winged Parrot, Crimson Chat (the tiny red blob in the middle of the picture), Rufous Fieldwren and...
  22. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    DAY 1 MELBOURNE-WYPERFELD (Casuarina) The alarm got me out of bed at 4:30 am, so that I could be at my first stop, Wychitella Nature Conservation Reserve, by 7:30. Wychitella is just outside Wedderburn on the Calder Hwy, and was a place I had driven past many times, but never stopped at...
  23. MikeMules

    Wyperfeld or Bust! A north-western Victorian Trip Report.

    Or, how not to see a redthroat (or a malleefowl; or a slender-billed thornbill). This is a report of my trip last week up into some north-western parts.of the state I haven’t visited yet. My holidays started a week before my kids’ and the wife’s, so with gracious spousal blessing I organised a...
  24. MikeMules

    Uganda/Rwanda

    My father and sister were in Uganda in February and used http://www.harriertours.com/; they both highly recommend the guide, Harriet Kemigisha.
  25. MikeMules

    Cuckoo - Peterborough - Victoria - Australia

    Yes, looks like a Shining.
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