Posted in Birding, General nature., Other creatures on Jan 31st, 2012
The summer bird surveys at Swallow Lagoon Nature Conservation Reserve gave us the title. Good to put two new species into the records, Painted Button-quail at two locations, and Owlet Nightjar, a little beauty that flew in front of us, landed on a branch and calmly regarded us for as long as we cared to [...]
Posted in General nature., Moths on Jan 27th, 2012
It promised to be a perfect mothing night, moonless, warm, and dead calm, but I hadn’t reckoned on those ?*&$# beetles. They descended on the light in swarms, covering the sheet and falling inches deep around the light that I had on a chair because I forgot part of the gear…. Beetles in the hair, [...]
A blog about the natural world of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Birds, insects, wildflowers, and anything else that poses for the camera.