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.
We are so thankful for sunny warm autumn days again with clear blue skies, at least for now. However, our birding expeditions have been almost fruitless due to washed out and flooded tracks and the absence of birds, due to the seasonal change and the effect of the rain on bird habitats. On my recent walk in my local nature […]
Last Sunday my wife and I had a birding date in the city of North Wollongong. After a lovely lunch at the popular Diggie’s beach-side cafe we did the Puckey’s Estate Nature Reserve walk past Puckey’s Lagoon. This is a very popular recreation area, well catered for by the local council. Many families were out enjoying the last day of […]
Last weekend my wife and I travelled to Canberra, our nation’s capital, to visit family. While there we took a walk through the National Botanic Gardens, which is another place where my books are sold, in their bookstore. As it was late in the afternoon,, we visited the recently included Banksia Garden area with its own dedicated study buildings. banksia […]
As I was experiencing delayed recovery from Covid, I was unable to go birding. As a result, this week’s post highlights my most recent page addition to my website, which some of you may not have yet explored, which is accessed via my Homepage and can be accessed by clicking the image below: Many are unaware of the importance of […]
Being currently in isolation with Covid-19. It has been a very challenging week both logistically and health-wise, for myself and my wife, who has also now is suffering with it. If you are using RAT tests use the Aussie made ones as particular Chinese brands are unreliable and causing many to detect it by other methods too late, having passed […]
This is the final part to our NSW Outback birds series where we will showcase some of the waterbirds and raptors that we saw on our roadtrip. The river systems are vital to the survival of these outback towns, and many birds inhabit the many freshwater lakes, swamps and river systems. One particular bird which we never see on the […]
Continuing our showcase of our NSW Outback Roadtrip birds, we focus this post on some of the passerines (perching birds) and our iconic Emu endemic to Australia’s desert plains, dry open forests and savanna regions of our vast hot dry land. As highlighted in the 2nd Edition of my first book What Birds Teach Us, the amazing survival ability of […]
It has been a few weeks since my last post, as my wife and I set out on a long awaited western road trip as a fitting end to my wife’s career as a GP, and to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It brought a shrill of delight to finally drive on the other side of the ranges to see a […]
Backyard birding daily brings us enjoyable encounters, be they from the birdbaths, the TV aerial next door or our Bottlebrush and Frangipani trees, all of which are viewed from our enclosed courtyard, where we often have birds come and visit, even while we entertain guests, which adds an even more enjoyable experience shared. Yesterday I watched as Butch our alpha […]
Last Monday, while staying in Wagga Wagga, my wife and I took a day-trip to the Fivebough International Ramsar listed Wetlands near the country town of Leeton, which is known for its delicious stone fruit and Leetona cannery, established by the early Italian immigrants in 1914. It was hot Summers day, and sadly not the best time to visit this […]
Last Monday I decided it was time to do my annual 2.5 hour drive to the Threatened Species Habitat of Lake Wollumboola, at Culburra Beach down the south coast from Sydney, to see what waders were present, before they prepare to return to the Alaska and Siberia next month. We missed out last year due to Covid restrictions. The recent […]
The hot humid days and nights have been unrelenting these week, and cooler temperatures and much more rain are rolling in as I write this post. Birders here are trying to work out if the smoke and devastating bushfires of the last two years of hot days and the very wet violent weather of this year have discouraged or destroyed […]
On our Australia Day holiday yesterday, my wife and I went for a pre-sunset date in our local reserve, catching the view across the river as we enjoy some dip and bickies and a pre-celebratory drink together to mark her last day of work the following day, which is today. Before we sat and shared this time together, as well […]
After 2 years of Covid restrictions we finally were able to have two of my grandsons stay over with us for 4 days, even amid the third more infectious and widespread wave of Covid as Omicron and Delta do their number on our country, and in particular our city. We were delighted when the boys shared how they were looking […]
Last Sunday my wife and had breakfast at our favorite National Park cafe with a friend my wife calls her laughing friend, which is how she first introduced us. As per usual while we were awaiting for our meals we received a visit from the resident Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, always on the scrounge, getting up close and friendly, though I had […]
My wife and I spent New Years Eve and the following days in the country city of Wagga Wagga, NSW (pronounced: Wogga Wogga) which means the place of many Crows (Ravens). When you repeat a word in our indigenous languages it means a great number of, or very large, or very deep. We visited my wife’s family there and stayed […]
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