
Email Subject:	Birds SA eNews May, 2026
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Hi [[firstname]] This edition we have a heap of new excursions and a chance to send your old binoculars to a good home. Read on... General Meeting 2026 Annual General Meeting 'Birds SA excursions, events and activities Fleurieu Birders National Beach-nesting Birds Conference Binoculars wanted Membership notes Birds SA Library news The Birder magazine General Meeting The May General Meeting is the Annual General Meeting. Please see the details below. The July General Meeting will be a Member’s Night, providing the opportunity for members to share their birding activities through making a brief presentation. Presentations are typically ten minutes in duration, but there is plenty of flexibility in this. If you have any interesting observations or have been on a birding trip or have taken some photographs that you would like to share please consider a brief presentation at the Member’s Night and contact Jeff Groves, 0401 125 510 return to contents 2026 Annual General Meeting The 2026 Annual General Meeting of The South Australian Ornithological Association Inc (Birds SA) will be held from 7 to 10 pm on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at Charles Hawker rooms 101/102, Waite Campus, commencing 7:00pm. Please note the earlier starting time. It will feature reporting on 2025 activities, Management Committee elections and a bird quiz with some interesting challenges and a few surprises. return to contents Excursions, events and activities The following excursions are subject to cancellation or change due to weather conditions or other factors outside of Birds SA’s control. It is important that you check the Birds SA website, Facebook page or the Member Jungle App for updated information. Updates will be provided 24 hours prior to the commencement of any affected excursion wherever possible. If you have any queries or require further information, please contact: Lynton Huxley: 0498 466 092 Email: fieldtrips@birdssa.asn.au Sunday 31 May: Laratinga Wetlands, Mt Barker (Easy) 34km. Meet at the car-park on Bald Hills Road, Mt. Barker at 8.30am. Trip Leaders: Angela and Peter Roodhouse Saturday 13 June: Paiwalla Wetlands (MM) 90km (Easy). Meet at Sunnyside Lookout at 8.30am. Take the Murray Bridge to Mannum Road on the eastern side of the river from Murray Bridge. Stay on this road until just past the turn-off to Bowhill on the right. Take the next turning left to Sunnyside Lookout car park. Trip Leader: Lynton Huxley Thursday 18 Magazine Road Wetlands Dry Creek (AP) 10km (Easy). Meet in the car park area at 8.30am. If you are travelling northwards on South Road, continue onto Salisbury Highway heading east. The road bends to the north and there is one road off to the left. This is Magazine Rd. From the city, take Port Wakefield Road north, turning left onto the Salisbury Hwy heading to Port Adelaide. Once you are up the Salisbury Highway, you need to move over to the right-hand lane, so you are ready to turn right into Magazine Road Wetlands. Trip Leader: Clive Paling Sunday 28 June: Anacotilla Springs, Second Valley (Difficult) (MLR) 87km. This is a private bushland property which enjoys the permanent flow of the Anacotilla River. To get there, take the Southern Expressway and Main South Road through Normanville towards Wirrina Cove Resort. Meet at 8.30am at the property gate which is on your left near a yellow 90km sign, a gravel area and some cattle yards. (NOTE: If you reach the entrance into Wirrina Cove Resort, Paradise Drive, you have gone about 700m too far!) Trip Leader: Lynton Huxley return to contents Fleurieu Birders The next Fleurieu Bird Outing is on Saturday, 6th June at 8.30am. Meet at gate 19 on Chapell Hill Rd. Blewett Springs. Moderate to hard walk. Trip leader Edith St. George Contact Wendy Phillips 0414 248 648 return to contents The National Beach-nesting Birds Conference Registrations for the 2026 National Beach-nesting Birds Conference are now open. The conference will be held in Goolwa from May 22-24th. The conference runs every two years and attracts people from around Australia working either on beach-nesting birds or in the coastal environment, and representing a range of perspectives: First Nations, coastal managers, researchers and community volunteers. For more information and registration, check out this page on the Birdlife Australia website. return to contents Binoculars wanted Do you have any binoculars suitable for birdwatching that you no longer use? Birds SA is seeking to obtain binoculars for use by schoolkids and other young people who are just being introduced to birdwatching. We also need to increase the number of sets of binoculars available to lend to participants in our highly popular field trips who may not have bino’s or who may have forgotten to bring theirs along. If you have some binoculars in good working order that you no longer need, please consider donating them to the Association. Bring them along to a General Meeting or get in touch with our Events Co-ordinator to arrange collection. Contact: Claire Bourne 0438 738 249 return to contents Membership Notes Photo - Jan Aamodt Membership Changes If you’d like to change your membership type (for example, from Online to Print membership or vice versa), the easiest time to do this is when renewing your membership. To update your membership: Log in to Member Jungle via the Birds SA website or mobile app. Go to Membership to view your account. In the membership section, click the small drop-down arrow next to your current membership type. Select your preferred membership level. The renewal amount will automatically update to the correct fee. Membership Renewals Please keep these important points in mind: Your membership expiry date can be found in your account on the website or app. You have 90 days after expiry to renew your membership. If your membership is not renewed within that period, it will be cancelled. Cancelled memberships require rejoining through the website as a new member. Please watch for renewal reminder emails and renew promptly to avoid interruption. Member Jungle Mobile App The free Member Jungle app is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app provides quick access to your membership account, events, publications, website links, and contact information. To use the app: Search for Member Jungle Select Birds SA Log in using your Birds SA username and password Any questions, please email. Sue Winwood - Membership Officer membership@birdssa.asn.au return to contents Birds SA Library news The library will be open on May 29, 2026 12:30–3:30pm It is located in the basement of the Old Stock Exchange building in Exchange Place, which is between Pirie and Grenfell Streets. To access the building, please phone the library staff on the mobile number displayed next to the lift. It is projected to be open on June 26, July 31, August 28, September 25, October 30 and November 27. Only Birds SA members can access the Library. Access the Library catalogue at https://www.libib.com/u/birdssa return to contents The Birder magazine** Please send all contributions and address all correspondence to the editorial team at magazineeditor@birdssa.asn.au. We are always particularly interested in hearing stories from our members. Your firsthand bird-watching experiences not only give life to the magazine, but also increase our knowledge of birds’ behaviour, and reading them encourages other members to participate. Include photos where you can, for sharing with our readers. Good-sized and good quality photographs labelled with the name of the photographer, date and location of each image are welcome. People on Birds SA field trips can send photos directly to the magazine address if they wish, rather than via excursion leaders, to save double handling. We like to include people in the photos – just make sure you have their consent for publication. The Winter Birder is due to be published in the second half of June 2026. Update on Dry Creek Saltfields Anyone interested in management of the Dry Creek Saltfields going forward (and wishing to have a say in the future of this landscape) is encouraged to follow the “Shifting Sands: future Opportunities for Dry Creek Saltfields” project, which has established an interactive platform, supported by a social media presence under the name “Shifting Salts” on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. It is hoped that an interactive website will be up and running by mid-June 2026. A full report on future opportunities for the Saltfields will appear as a general meeting report in the Spring Birder. Call for Australian Birdsong Recordings ends on 30 May You still have time to contribute to this project. Award-winning composers Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose are collaborating with a music ensemble and the birding community to “bring Australian birdsong to the stage.” The public is being invited to contribute to a citizen science component “by submitting audio recordings of Australian birdsong, spoken stories of bird encounters, or historical and archival material connected to birds they may wish to share with the project.” Submissions are open until 30 May 2026, and full guidelines and upload details are available at: https://decibelnewmusic.com/biofonika/ The Birder Editorial team return to contents Designed and edited by Malcolm Downes and Trish Aukett for Birds SA Contact: malcolm.downes@birdssa.asn.au[[country]]