Birding Cape York Part 3 – The Brolga
As my granddaughter is spending a few days with us during her school vacation, so I will share a brief post of Australia’s only endemic crane which is known as […]
Birding Cape York Part 2 – Cairns to Cooktown.
We continue our exploration of Far North Queensland in Cairns before leaving on our journey northward. We saw juvenile and adult Nankeen Night Heron walking around at night with the […]
Birding Cape York in Far North Queensland – Cairns
We have been away up Far North Queensland on a tour of the Cape York Peninsula right to the very Tip of the Australian mainland. We even went further to […]
A Date with Young Birders – Mt Annon Botanic Gardens
Last weekend we spent the morning with a younger couple of ‘novice’ birders as they described themselves. This was our second outing together, and focused on Mt Annan Botanic Gardens […]
A Winter’s Day Walk – The Eastern Rosella
Finally a blue sky and a chance to walk again, though much damage had been done to tracks still filled with puddles of water from the intense rain in the […]
Wintering Over Together – Safety and Security in Community.
As the cold days of rain continue into weeks and now months with the occasional break birding has become challenging to say the least. However on a recent weekend we […]
Winter Nesters – Rainbow Lorikeets
This post explores more birds from our Mt Annan bird dates. It is interesting how varied particular bird species nesting seasons are, especially for the Rainbow Lorikeet which may nest […]
“Birding is Like a Box of Chocolates, You never know what you’re gonna get.”
After our previous post on the Winter migration of the Critically Endangered Swift Parrot to our local Mt Annan Australian Botanic Gardens where we did actually see and photograph them, […]
The Bird We Missed Seeing In Tassie – Is Visiting Us.
This is the final post in the series of our recent stay in South Bruny Island, Tasmania at Inala Nature Reserve. One of the birds we would have seen at […]
Finding the Endemic Birds of Tasmania
During our stay on South Bruny Island and also in the forests surrounding Hobert we managed to see many of the endemic birds and several of the endemic animals, which […]
In Search of One of Australia’s Smallest, Rarest Endangered Birds
Last week my wife and I travelled to South Bruny Island, Tasmania in search of the tiny, rare endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote which is now only found in small groups in […]
Unusual Winter Bird Finds
Taking another quiet walk with God in my local Nature Reserve the quietness was once again observed in the 10° cool sunny morning where very few were out and about. […]
A Quiet Cool Winter Walk
It was a cold clear morning about 10° C when I took a solo walk and talk with God along the track of our local Nature Reserve. I was curious […]
Winter Wonders – Southern Boobook
A cool brisk sunny Winter’s morning and we went for a walk in our local Nature Reserve to check out the activity at the owl nesting hole, as this year […]
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t – Superb Fairy-wren
The early winter months down here are very quiet in our local parks, having fewer bird species and almost no current wildflowers to feed the many nectar eaters. However, our […]
Birds That ‘Winter Over’ – The Bar-tailed Godwit
Now that the massive deluge has passed and many thousands of people on the mid north coast of our state are in recovery mode, counting their losses from flood and […]
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