Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
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 […]
A Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all my Blog Followers from Aussiebirder and his wife. Our prayer for us all is that we may have a year of New Beginnings and Unexpected Blessings as our loving Heavenly Father guides us on our life journey along life’s sometimes rugged pathway, As I have often posted that it is in […]
Last week my wife and I took two of my teenage grandsons (the tech-know wizards) down the coast for a lovely time out with us in fresh air and sunshine. While we were there we visited one of the places that sells my books ‘What Birds Teach Us’ and ‘Flight of a Fledgling’ This was an excellent opportunity to go […]
As Spring has now moved into Summer, our hottest and stormiest time of the year, so the birds are on the move changing with the season. This time heralds changes for many of our the bird species, many are in throws of nesting and raising young. On a recent walk through our local reserves we noted some of these changes. […]
We are always delighted to hear to the classic call of a flock of Little Corella passing over our house each day as they fly out to new feeding grounds. Corella are a seed eating Parrot species endemic to Australia. However, on this day earlier in the week we heard the calls of many Corella not passing over, but remaining […]
Leaving Grafton we made our way to Halliday’s Point to spend time with friends and my daughter’s family for my birthday. On the way we stopped in for lunch at the Hunter Wetlands Centre in Newcastle. We watched from the cafe as the Magpie Goose flock which the centre has been breeding for release into the wetlands were washing and […]
Leaving Port Macquarie my wife and I drove further north to Grafton in search of the Everlasting Swamp National Park, which was written up as ‘having more species of bird than Kakadu NP’. We had never read about it before so we were excited to check it out while the weather was still favorable, as it gets very hot, steamy […]
My wife and I travelled up the coast for a few days to visit a friend with whom we had become reacquainted with in recent years. My friend and I went through school together on the Central Coast and as young teens would spend time exploring Sydney by train. My friend and his wife hosted our stay in Port Macquarie, […]
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