January Bird of the Month: The Regent Honeyeater Regent Honeyeater (C)Bill Harding 2016 birdlifephotography.org.au Gladstone Weatherstone This is the first story in a projected monthly series inspired by Gladstone Weatherstone (pictured left Image courtesy Wayne Weatherstone ]. He lived on his property Lyndfield Park at Oolong near Gunning from 1941 until his death in 1996. Between 1962 and 1981 this amateur (but very knowledgeable) naturalist and ornithologist kept a notebook. In fine copperplate handwriting he recorded bird sightings - sometimes significant and sometimes commonplace – made on or near his property. Although he began these records in 1962 his intimate knowledge of local birdlife goes back to 1941. This notebook, together with Gladstone’s extensive bird egg and nest collections, has been accepted by the National Museum of Australia where they are expected to feature in an Australian Environmental Hi...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales