Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
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 […]
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