- Nov 26
This is to announce the launch of our updated site.
Hope you all enjoy
- Apr 4, 2024
Updated: Nov 28
Hint: it is halfway around one of the tracks so you can rest up before continuing.
The seat was provided courtesy of Richard Bazeley and installed by Parks Victoria rangers from Inglewood and St Arnaud Field Naturalists members.
- Mar 15, 2020
This morning 7.25am at the bird feeder (for the magpies and white-winged choughs- and the crested pigeons and the magpie-larks!), a sole Pied Butcherbird, denizen of the Mallee.
I believe he or she has been around for a couple of days , observing.
It's not only humans who observe other species and their behaviour.
Having worked out the routine, the bird followed me to the next feeder, then the next but was a little overwhelmed by the numbers of other birds including belligerent and raucous cockies.
After 3 days of gale-force southerly winds, this bird is unlikly to have hitched a ride that way.
The last sighting of a Pied Butcherbird, 7 or 8 years ago, in the area was after several days of strong northerlies.
Will this bird stay? Will it be joined by others fleeing the no-food situation further north?
What will our resident Grey Butcherbirds think about this?
