"Then you've got a twitcher, and a twitcher is those who will just at the drop of a hat take off to find a rare bird or a vagrant that turns up somewhere it doesn't belong." We love to go out and look for birds and really go into known areas and look at them and go on regular outings to find birds. "Then you've got birders, and I fall into the category of birders. They just enjoy birds and looking at them," Nev said. First of all you've got a bird watcher, now that's the person who enjoys looking at the birds in the park, in their backyard, out their kitchen window or whatever. Nev is a member of Birdlife Bundaberg, a group that enjoys bird watching across the Wide Bay - from Maryborough to 1770, and from Bundaberg to Gayndah and Eidsvold.īut don't call him a twitcher Nev classes himself as a birder. "Apart from that you'll find them generally ploughed fields around the area, especially if there has been sweet potatoes ploughed up."
"You would see them around the wetlands, the botanic gardens there is a little island up on the big body of water there, they roost in there of a night. "I love to watch them on the water, particularly when they've got young ones which are a very rusty brown colour. " beautiful formation flyers, the V formation is absolutely beautiful to watch," Nev said. Magpie geese can grow up to 90cm tall, with black and white feathers, a long neck and red beak. "By the middle of summer and if conditions are really good and there is plenty of water and feed, we'll get up to 10,000 or more in the area."
Most of the time they live in the northern part of the country, but around here, because we're so warm and it's a good climate here we'd have 1,000-2,000 in the area all year round. "It's around about the same size as your average barnyard goose. "For some reason they love sweet potatoes, and Bundaberg being just about the best sweet potato area in the country - they flock in here," said Nev Capell, member of Birdlife Bundaberg. The big black and white birds are arriving in their thousands and it turns out they have a sweet tooth.
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