Archive for the 'Birders' Category

Over the last few weeks I have featured many birding bloopers from birders all over Australia and even some from overseas. These have generally first appeared on the Birding-Aus forum. I have been very amused at the problems some birders have, including myself, in identifying birds. I have also been impressed with the willingness of […]

It is amazing the difficulties that birders get themselves into from time to time. Over recent weeks various birders have shared the errors of their ways while out birding. Some have made very strange identifications but today’s contribution is a beauty. The size, shape, colour and sound all indicates a non-bird ID, but no… well […]

Stephen Ambrose is a regular contributor to the Birding-Aus forum and he has also contributed to this series of posts on birding bloopers. His experience just goes to show several facts about birds:

Birds are unpredictable.
Birds do not read the field guides
Birds never follow your script
Birds convince you that you must expect the unexpected.

Here is Stephen’s […]

I have really enjoyed reading the birding bloopers that have been shared on the Birding-Aus forum. The contributors have been very generous in allowing me to share their embarrassing experiences here on my blog. Many of the contributions have come from Australia but there have been a few from overseas. This is the case today, […]

I was telling my wife about all these bloopers and she reminded me about an incident in 1987 when we were camping at Lake Hattah in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park in Victoria.
We were very annoyed trying to get to sleep one night when we heard a low “ooom-ooom-ooom” sound coming from nearby. […]