Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
In the midst of inclement and unseasonable weather I was led to highlight the rich favour and blessing my Almighty Father God has poured over me and my book sales which have been bubbling along now for ten years. In 2015 I published my first edition of ‘What Birds Teach Us’ now in 2025, after several sell outs and reprints, […]
Several of Australia’s endemic birds are known for their boldness, opportunism and ability to learn techniques often copied from other birds they have observed to steal food from the hands of unsuspecting picnicers. This has been our experience here and that of many others. So this is my topic for this post. We took my second grandson while he was […]
This is the quiet time of the year for the birds in our local nature reserve as they either migrate back to the warmer regions further north or just become quieter since they are out of their active exciting breeding seasons. However, some birds continue to breed into our winter months as it stays warmer now longer. This Rainbow Lorikeet […]
Last weekend my wife and I travelled to Canberra our nation’s capital city to visit family and visit the Pompey Exhibition in the National Museum. Canberra is a completely man made city constructed on sheep grazing areas half way between Sydney and Melbourne our two major cities. The reason being that each city thought it should be the nation’s capital, […]
Since the weather here has so far been unseasonably wet and windy for Autumn, birding has been somewhat out of the question so I thought revisit a film I made some years ago regarding birding plumage and the various stages, for those interested, especially those who have not seen this video. The Superb Fairy-wren male, which many of us know […]
This week my thoughts turn to the apparent truth that when humans move into an area previously not populated with humans they often due to their opportunistic selfish natures excessively take advantage of a specie or species of creatures and plants as they are free for the taking. With them come ferule rodents (rats and mice), dogs, cats and foxes […]
It is that time of year again when the Bar-tailed Godwit and other migratory waders are fattening up for their epic journey back to the Arctic Circle to Siberia and Alaska, travelling some 8.000 km (5,000 miles) to nest and give birth to their next generation. Notice the orange plumage of the above male Godwit as he is already breeding […]
My wife and I recently explored both mountain highlands and coastal bay in search of birds with long curved beaks, being Autumn as it is supposed to be here. We visited Fitzroy Falls in the heart of Morton National Park, where my books are sold at the Visitor Information Centre. I was met by David a friendly ranger there who […]
It was our Wedding Anniversary again and we chose not to go away but have a lovely day out in the city at our local famous Taronga Park Zoo, which we both love visiting to see the Regent Honeyeater they are breeding for future release. We catch a train into the city, a ferry across our beautiful Sydney Harbour and […]
2025 is marked out as a Year of New Beginnings for my wife and I as we settle into our mature understanding years. I have recently had new eye glasses which have wonderfully solved a poor prescription made a few years ago by a less experienced optometrist, who told me at the time ‘that is the best we can do […]
From hot humid Summer storms we have suddenly entered cool clear Autumn like days and February is only half over. We thought it was time for another Birding Date to check out our migratory waders once again to see how they are doing as they graze the low tide river mud flats for subterranean crustaceans. Two pair of Bar-tailed Godwit […]
The last few posts have featured some of our rather secretive rainforest birds which most Australians and many birders never get to see in the wild. Our very dense dark damp rainforest habitats have several birds that are equipped with protective plumage and behaviours that assist to make them safe from predation. We previously showcased the Bassian and Russet-tailed Thrush […]
Last Saturday we took a lovely young couple of new birder friends to our local Royal National Park for a walk and a lunch. At first it was fairly quiet with birds but quite noisy with Cicadas, as it is here mid Summer. We saw a good selection of species and my wife and I were glad to pass on […]
Many if not most of Australia’s birds are fruit eaters. Most of our forest birds are, and while many birds may be omnivorous they do enjoy the odd berry or fig when it is ripe. After all the rain recently,now in the middle of our Summer, many of our native trees and vines are fruiting with ripe berries and figs. […]
As we enter into a new year we need to be positive people of vision, faith and hope who aim to prosper in our lives delighting in the satisfaction of accomplishment, rather than negative people who act out of fear and doubt who accomplish very little because they aim to not loose. This theme follows my last past, and I […]
A Happy, Healthy and Blessed New Year to all my blog Followers. Moving on from my last post where our beautiful Australian Rainbow Lorikeet was featured, which grace our native nectar producing flowers each Spring and Summer, we consider another beautiful visual wonder from which our bird gained its name – the rainbow in the sky that appears after the […]
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