Yorkeys Knob...The Return! (1 Viewer)

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Dom F

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• Sep 10, 2015

• #21

This year must be a good year for nocturnal species as added another last night when checking the moth trap at midnight - an Australian Owlet Nightjar was calling and then I saw something fly along the edge of the woodland at the bottom of the garden.

 

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Dom F

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #22

Nothing new to report from the last couple of weeks - it has been quite a quiet spring here really. Of note though has been a calling Fan-tailed Cuckoo in the village for the last few days and the Papuan Frogmouth is calling from very close by every night but I still have not managed to find him!
A very bad picture of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo - although you can just about see its yellow eye ring!

 

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Dom F

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• Nov 1, 2015

• #23

There has been a run of good birds this week - the Papuan Frogmouth decided to show itself this week, although it did not hang around long enough for a photo. Flybys were then the order of the day with a single Collared Sparrowhawk and Crested Tern drifting over the house midweek and then some of my favourite summer visitors White-throated Needletails put in an appearence with three whizzing around the house on Sunday

 

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Dom F

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• Nov 6, 2015

• #24

Another nice raptor this week in the form of a Hobby that whizzed past my face when I was picking up the boys from school

 

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Dom F

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• Nov 16, 2015

• #25

New for the season a single Pacific Swift flew through over the weekend. Hoping for a few more over the next couple of weeks IF the Wet ever arrives - mid November and have had little more than 25mm rain...seriously impacting on my mothing!