http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/ NT Birding Fri, 24 May 2013 08:02:06 GMT Gill Ainsworth http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6901 Hi all, got a nice sighting of a White-bellied Sea-eagle this morning in Bees Creek. It flew into the garden to eat its catch before sharing it with some Wed, 22 May 2013 00:19:55 GMT Micha Jackson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6900 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6900 Also, yesterday morning 2 channel billed cuckoos were chased off by a friarbird in Miller around 830am. Micha Jackson NAILSMA Project Officer Phone: 08 8946 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:19:35 GMT John Rawsthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6899 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6899 Ah, Pete, this reminds me - there was a Channel-billed Cuckoo calling in Coconut Grove today at midday. It called several times over the course of an hour. Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:48 GMT Peter Kyne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6898 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6898 A couple of quick notes from Kakadu: 18 May 2013 2 Spotted Harriers, 1 Swamp Harrier, 1 Channel-billed Cuckoo, 1 Black-breasted Buzzard, numerous Tue, 21 May 2013 08:16:53 GMT Chris Parker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6897 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6897 Last Friday (17 May) I saw and (kinda!) photographed 2 Eurasian Tree Sparrows on the banks of Darwin Harbour. I presume the birds hitched a ride with a boat Mon, 20 May 2013 04:31:37 GMT damian6105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6896 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6896 Whoopsie, ntfaunaobs.nt.gov.au Mon, 20 May 2013 04:22:34 GMT damian6105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6895 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6895 G'day Luke, to enter fauna observations into the NT Fauna Atlas use http:\\ ntfaunaobs.gov.au. Cheers, Damian On 20 May, 2013 1:28 PM, "Luke Paterson" Mon, 20 May 2013 03:28:53 GMT Luke Paterson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6894 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6894 Yeah I've seen them behave like this before in 2011 at the turn off to Bird Billabong and it was also when I managed to locate an active Gouldian Nest in one Mon, 20 May 2013 03:15:45 GMT Stephen Garnett http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6893 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6893 Very interesting that the Gouldians were checking out hollows with juveniles as that is, as far as I know, a new nesting area that has not been recorded Mon, 20 May 2013 03:09:54 GMT Luke http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6892 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6892 Over the weekend there were some nice sightings within the southern part of Kakadu and around Pine Creek. On Saturday the 18th of May we had 3 Gouldian Finches Mon, 20 May 2013 03:03:02 GMT John Rawsthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6891 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6891 I went fishing with a couple of mates to Channel Point (opposite the Peron Islands, near the mouth of the Daly R) this weekend just gone. Some interesting Sun, 19 May 2013 11:07:58 GMT Will Riddell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6890 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6890 Hi Niven,   I have been checking out a few Grey Goshawk nests around Darwin. I know of one in the mangroves in Ludmilla as well as another at the water Thu, 16 May 2013 07:31:03 GMT Mª José Valencia Sánchez-Arévalo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6889 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6889 Good morning! Let me introduce myself: I am Maria Jose, one Spanish ornithologist. I'll be in Australia for a year and remain in Darwin the first three Wed, 15 May 2013 06:37:16 GMT Mick Jerram http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6888 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6888 Hi Niven This feedback is probably too old for you, but: On a canoeing trip on the Katherine River (8kms below the Limestone Creek Junction) in roughly 2004, I Tue, 14 May 2013 07:49:13 GMT Chris Sanderson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6887 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ntbirds/message/6887 Hi all, I think this is a great idea (though being stuck in Canberra won't be able to go). I spent some time in that part of the world a few years ago when