10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically. Keeping fox numbers down certainly benefits our local ground-nesting birds, especially Stone Curlews and Grey Partridges.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
A Red Fox walks through the remaining intestines at the feeding station, while I spread the torch light, notebook and the camera in front of me. The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. The air is fresh and, as I sit on a chair, I add another layer of clothing.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2012
Grey-headed Flying Foxes have been roosting in a large colony in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens for many years now and their popularity with visitors is matched by a reciprocal loathing from the garden’s curator. The mass of body parts beneath thier favoured roosting branches show that they are very efficient bat cullers.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Ahead of the first trip, I wasn’t thinking much about mammals, and yet, you cannot miss them, from Nilgais near villages to Indian Flying Foxes in town centres, not to mention those ubiquitous and irresistibly cute Palm Squirrels eating seeds left for parakeets. On that first trip, I even saw some of the last 500 (Asiatic) Lions !
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2022
Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2021
296 Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. 558 Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. 296 Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. The year list to date is 1015 species and 7 have been added to the life list ( 4059 ) from Costa Rica, China and Trinidad and Tobago. 1 Little Tinamou – Crypturellus soui.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2021
As such, a parallel post will appear here simultaneously with the year list. As such, a parallel post will appear here simultaneously with the year list.
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