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Urban Birds Program Manager for BirdLife Australia and all around urban bird nerd - Dharawal country

Joined December 2014
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Isn’t it great when right place and right time is in your own backyard! Just watched around 200 yellow-faced honeyeaters (?) in small groups on their migration north. Wonder how many others looked up?
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A day later, perfect conditions again, and more glorious views of chattering groups of YFHEs
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I’ve got some return visitors that dropped in while I was doing school drop off. What a sight to return home to 💛 🖤
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Farewell my lovely friends, visit again soon
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My heart rate can’t take these close games #werisetogether #NBL24
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We interrupt my long service leave hiatus to report there is a pair of yellow-tailed black-cockatoos in the garden! 6 years after planting tubestock - it’s paid off! WhatsApp’ing with husband who is out there with them and can’t come in in case he scares them off.
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Book launch at Five Dock Library! If you live in Sydney, please join us for the official launch of my book "Amazing Annoying Birds - Living with Australian brush-turkeys". No matter if you love them or loathe them, this picture presentation will be for you! #brushturkeyfacts
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Can attest - it truly is awesome
Perhaps the greatest New Years Resolution of all! Sign up to volunteer with #GreyhoundRescue 🥰 All the info you need is on our website, you'll have an awesome time and help beautiful greyhounds.
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For someone who talks a lot about birds in people’s gardens, my own list is very mundane. It’s the basic big bossy birds. We did do some planting a few years back but no new visitors - till a yellow-tailed black-cockatoo just arrived today to chew on the banksias.
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#FirstSeenAndHeard Sunday, the final day of #BirdWeek! #Bird Nerds! First Heard - Red Wattlebird. First Seen - New Holland Honeyeater. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #FirstBirdOfMyDay #BirdTwitter #MyFirstBird – at Melbourne, Victoria
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School pick up time. Kiddo’s class all just finished an #AussieBirdCount and all carried out A4 ‘backyard birds of nsw’ posters to their bags. Not going to lie, I had some happy tears 🥹
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What a cracker of a start to the school holidays! Echidna sighting!
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Going live soon with @backyardbirdo to talk Urban Birds! Join us thebirdemergency.com/YouTube – at Melbourne, Victoria
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#FirstSeenAndHeard Happy Monday! Melbourne. #Bird Nerds! First Heard - Spotted Dove. First Seen - Noisy Miner. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #FirstBirdOfMyDay #BirdTwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity – at Melbourne, Victoria
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I’ve spent some time with Oscar and he is such a sweetheart who has been waiting too long for his forever home
Looking for a man who’s tall, dark, and handsome? Well, Oscar’s your man and he’s looking for love! Follow the link to foster or adopt! greyhoundrescue.com.au/adopt… #adoptagreyhound #adoptdontshop #greyhoundrescue
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Look, I'd be the first to advocate for both domestic and feral cat control, but without ALSO addressing habitat distruction and climate change there's really no point in declaring a "war on cats".
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Last day of school holidays. What a cracker!
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