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The first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2018

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Pied Oystercatcher chick sheltering under an adult bird. Red-capped Plovers are also breeding along Cable Beach at the moment and we have observed several chicks and there are also newly laid eggs. We observed the adult Pied Oystercatchers finding small creatures in the soft sand and feeding them to the chicks.

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Marlgu Billabong at the end of the dry season

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Last month we decided to head north to go camping and birding and top up the 2018 Year List. The closest town to Marlgu Billabong is Wyndham and they had 22mm of rain on April 7th 2018 and there had been no rain since then when we visited on November 10th. Marlgu Billabong looking right from the shelter.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. The Falcon Thief has come along at a good time.

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