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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
11 Feb 2013 | 7:27 pm
This report covers a 16 day birding and family (x2) holiday to sunny Tasmania in January 2013. From a 'trip report' context, I was a little concerned about covering the entire state in just one trip report. How could this possibly do the Apple Isle justice? Many of the places we visited could easily have had dedicated trip reports. Some areas you'd need to spend months there just to understand its ecological rhythms. So here goes, I'll try to fit[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
3 Dec 2012 | 4:48 pm
Great Sandy National Park & Inskip Point, & some others SEQ areas Tim Dolby The following report describes a recent trip (November 2013) to south-east Queensland (SEQ), an area that provides some of Australia's most spectacular birding. The logic behind the trip was simple. Aside from the birding reasons (mentioned below), as part of a birthday present my wife had offered to pay for airline tickets to a birding destination (within reason) of my choice! Surely I must be the luckiest birdwatcher[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
10 Oct 2012 | 6:31 pm
Wartook State Forest Tim Dolby, October 2012I have just returned from a trip to the northern Grampians in western Victoria, staying near the wonderful Wartook State Forest – a superb area of grassy eucalyptus woodland. It was the spring school break, so yakking with family and friends around an evening fire, and enjoying the sites, sounds and smells of the bush, was the order of the each day. And, of course, I managed to nip off for some morning walks to[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
24 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
The following report describes a birding trip to the fabulous Mount Isa region in north-west Queensland (May 2012), an area completely under-estimated as a birding destination. With me on the trip were two birding friends, Greg Oakley and Tim Bawden. The region is often described as the country of "Dinosaurs, Fossils and Mining", by my reckoning you could add one more to that list, "Birds". Varied Lorikeet (Cloncurry) ItineraryWe spent seven days in the region, flying in from Melbourne Sat[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
11 Nov 2011 | 1:14 pm
Rainbow Bee-eater, along with Budgerigar, Black Honeyeater and Masked and White-browed Woodswallow are currently in abundance at Goschen Bushland Reserve - Nov 2011. [Photograph Jon Thornton] I have just spent a few days (Nov 2011) at one of my favourite birding location in Victoria, Goschen Bushland Reserve, a small mallee reserve just south between Kerang and Swam Hill. Despite its small size (approximately 25 ha), of all the reserve in Victoria, I think it most comparable to the grassy woodland areas of[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
11 Oct 2011 | 3:52 pm
Black Honeyeater, Whoey Tank. I have just spent part of the spring break (Oct 2011) visiting Lake Cargelligo and Round Hill Nature Reserve. With me were my son Rhys, brother Nic, and nephew Zac. Round Hill Nature Reserve, and the adjacent Nombinnie Nature Reserve, are hotspots for Mallee birds, and include isolated populations of Red-lored Whistler and Malleefowl. Both reserves are 50 km north of Lake Cargelligo, 560 km west of Sydney, and for me the drive up from Melbourne[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
20 Jul 2011 | 3:53 pm
Select image to enlarge. This report covers a winter trip (early July) to Birds Australia's Gluepot Reserve. Part of the Riverland Biosphere Reserve on the South Australia and NSW border, it is located in the centre of the largest block of intact Mallee woodlands in Australia. On the way home from Gluepot we stopped at Billiatt Conservation Park, another Mallee reserve 150 south of Gluepot. BIG thanks to Greg Oakley for the use of some of his images in this report,[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
29 Mar 2011 | 6:08 pm
The following report covers a birding trip to the fantastic south west corner of Western Australia. Joining me on the trip was fellow birding cohort Greg Oakley. Honey Possum feeding on Banksia baxteri, Cheynes Beach.ItineraryOur itinerary was to fly 4000 km from Melbourne (Victoria) to sunny Perth in Western Australia. From Perth we'd travel 500 km south to coastal heathland just east of Albany. On the way we'd stop at Dryandra Woodland. Dryandra is not only an excellent mid-point between[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
29 Mar 2011 | 3:42 pm
State listing of birding sites in Australia New South WalesBomaderry Creek Reserve Jervis Bay and Booderee National Park NSW Far South CoastNSW Mid Coast: Barrington Tops, Boorganna, Crowdy Bay National Park and Ash IslandRound Hill Nature Reseve and Lake CargelligoSturt National Park and Mutawintji National Park Northern TerritoryAlice Springs 2010 - After the RainsAlice Springs and Surrounds 2007Darwin and Kakadu QueenslandCairns, Georgetown, Karumba on Gulf of CarpentariaIron Range National Park and Musgrave StationLamington National ParkMichaelmas Cay Great Barrier ReefBalloo OverflowMount Isa, Bladensburg[…]
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Tim Dolby's Bird Trip Reports
12 Jan 2011 | 2:49 pm
Click images to enlarge. (copyright Tim Dolby)Immature Rock Parrot, Weir Cove Hike.This report covers a trip to Kangaroo Island (KI) in South Australia, visited (by Tim Dolby) with family during January 2011. Somehow I managed to convinced my family that KI was a good place to visit over summer (following up on a recent trip to the Flinders Range). The weather was perfect, the scenery wonderful, and the birds were everywhere.January in KI is normally very hot, with temperatures regularly[…]
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