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Thankfully my wife and visiting grandson managed to have a walk in our local nature reserve on a day that rain was predicted, but unexpectedly turned out to be a beautiful sunny winter morning. On our walk we were told by other birders that our Powerful Owl was quite visible, so we quickly made our way to the nesting tree, […]
Taking a walk in our local Nature Reserve my wife and i noted how quiet the Winter forest was in the non breeding season when many of the birds are feeding much quieter than in the Summer breeding months. We wondered how much quieter it might become if the H5 Bird Flue, which has now entered Australia’s south west, spreads […]
Yes, it is that time again when the Powerful Owl nests annually in the same tree in our local Nature Reserve. We knew to start looking about now and we were pleased to spot the male already watching the nest from the same vantage point as previous years, always with a direct line of sight to the nest. The sun […]
Finally a blue sky and a chance to walk again, though much damage had been done to tracks still filled with puddles of water from the intense rain in the recent week. I thought I would check out the nesting hole again where the resident Southern Bookbook Owl had been lodging, preventing the resident Powerful Owl from nesting again as […]
A cool brisk sunny Winter’s morning and we went for a walk in our local Nature Reserve to check out the activity at the owl nesting hole, as this year there appears to have been some disruption to the Powerful Owl (Australia’s largest owl) having its usual nesting hole now inhabited by the Southern Boobook (Australia’s smallest owl). It was […]