Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
My wife and I share a love of bird observing and bird photography which takes us all over Australia. We love sharing our experiences. Birds live in the beautiful parts of our country. We always get blessed with beautiful gifts of new birds and unexpected experiences each time we go out birding or just walking in the parks and reserves in our wonderful land. We love Australia, and the variety that each state and region offers in its wildlife and nature aspects. Join us in sharing our love. We have always found other birders enthusiastic and friendly people who appreciate the good things in life.
Sunny Sunday Afternoon and my wife suggested a walk in our local park for some much needed exercise, and so off we went. Our first sighting from the footbridge was this Greater Egret in its various hunting positions. The key to success for Egrets and Herons alike is to be perfectly still and wait. While one went fishing the other […]
After two years of nesting failure for our resident Powerful Owl we rejoice to report one juvenile owlet has finally emerged from the nest, however it appeared to be alone, being displayed resting not far from the nest in a casuarina pine tree. It was resting alone in the afternoon sun, occasionally being pestered by a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. Click on […]
Another amazing warm crisp blue sky winters day for a walk with my wife and our friend, so we decided to walk along the riverbank as my wife’s foot was continuing to heal and a flat even walk was required. The river bank unexpectedly at high tide was lined with over a dozen Bar-tailed Godwit very busily foraging, as they […]
Last week my wife and I visited my four grandchildren on a round trip of the mid-north coast and Hunter Region of NSW. We sighted several raptors among other birds which were not plentiful this time of year in the colder months. While walking along the beach front near Newcastle Beach without my camera, as I pushed my wife in […]
We have been blessed with some warm crisp Winter days emerging from quite cold mornings. We are thankful for the warm sun as it relaxes and cheers us as the day progresses. My wife and I decided on a riverside walk along our local Georges River leading into Botany Bay. Being it Winter we do not expect to see many […]
Thankfully my wife and visiting grandson managed to have a walk in our local nature reserve on a day that rain was predicted, but unexpectedly turned out to be a beautiful sunny winter morning. On our walk we were told by other birders that our Powerful Owl was quite visible, so we quickly made our way to the nesting tree, […]
This week my focus is on Australia’s 76 + species of birds we classify as Honeyeaters or Nectar eaters, which makes it the country with the largest variety of species for this classification of passerine, having almost half the world’s 186 species. Many of these birds live in very arid dry desert like regions of the vast Australian continent. There […]
Taking a walk in our local Nature Reserve my wife and i noted how quiet the Winter forest was in the non breeding season when many of the birds are feeding much quieter than in the Summer breeding months. We wondered how much quieter it might become if the H5 Bird Flue, which has now entered Australia’s south west, spreads […]
This week I introduce my third book release Reflect On These Things – Practical Meditations Gleaned from Australia’s Amazing Birds. Unlike my previous two books, this is distinctively a Christian teaching book. As you can observe from the cover of my new book the Australian Pelican is resting alone on a quiet section of the river. Birds take time-out to […]
This week I focus on a bird that is endemic to Australia yet I seldom post but is quite unique and remarkable in how it spreads the Mistletoe which is an obligate hemiparasitic plant. Mistletoe grows and hangs from tree branches having been sown from the faeces of the Mistletoebird where the seeds of the fruit have been rubbed onto […]
This week we focus on Norfolk Island, an island under the rule and serviced by Australia, even though it sits some1,677 km (1,042 miles) away from Sydney out in the Pacific Ocean. The English first used it as a penal colony and later abandoned. In 1856 was settled under Queen Victoria’s rule as a new home to relocate rebel Pitcairn […]
Taking another walk through our local park and meeting several birding couples was a great delight. It was great to see the male Powerful Owl with the remains of last night’s Possum prey. The male usually eats the head and keeps the body for the female and nestlings, finishing off any leftovers. Click on image to enlarge it. It was […]
It was a beautiful crisp Autumn day once more and my wife suggested that we visit our local Taronga Park Zoo overlooking the beautiful Sydney Harbour. After catching the train into the city we took a ferry across the harbour, past the bridge, opera house and islands to the other side where we bussed up the hillside to the zoo […]
Yes, it is that time again when the Powerful Owl nests annually in the same tree in our local Nature Reserve. We knew to start looking about now and we were pleased to spot the male already watching the nest from the same vantage point as previous years, always with a direct line of sight to the nest. The sun […]
Last week my post featured the amazing Zebra Finch, one of the most studied birds in the world, Finches are primarily small seed eaters (granivores), being mainly grass seeds. Though they do need some green grass or leaf to balance their diets. This special group of Finches is featured having a bright red tail which makes their tiny bodies visible […]
It is most enjoyable to experience a week of lovely mild sunny blue sky Autumn days, a change from the unseasonable weather on the past months. We have been told we are heading toward a year bringing drought, heatwaves and bushfires possibly worse than previous years. My wife and I decided to have a day out together so we headed […]