Archive for the 'Owls Frogmouths and Nightjars' Category

Nocturnal: active at night, such as owls. (The opposite is diurnal, or active in the day time.)

I should go out birding more at night.
After all, if I want to actually see nocturnal birds, as opposed to merely hearing them, I have to make the effort to get out there in […]

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 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. […]

Here is another entry in the current series of birding bloopers from the contributors to the Birding-Aus forum. This one comes from John and Ruth who were birding in the UK at the time.
Our birding blooper happened in UK in 1997. We were staying at a B&B on a pig farm in Lincolnshire. It was […]

After living in the same home for over 20 years it is a rare event to add a new bird species to my “home list.” So it was a delight a few days ago when I disturbed a Spotted Nightjar in our little patch of mallee scrub. It flew before I had seen it […]