Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
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 […]
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 […]
To finish off this unusual year of pandemic, now closing in its second, entering its third, I share a simple but timely post, asking as many are: Is God trying to get our attention, as he has done many times throughout history ? to turn people back to trusting in him rather than in themselves (science) to deliver, rescue and […]
This Spring, due to Covid restrictions and wet windy weather, I had not been checking our migratory waders as regular as usual. Some weeks ago I managed to check out our returning migrant birds, now here enjoying our unusually wet wintry summer weather. So I drove down to the river flats at low tide to our local shorebird reserve, and […]
Recently my wife and I visited our nation’s capital Canberra to visit family and places where my books are sold. One of the activities we did with my wife’s sister and brother-in-law was to visit Mulligan’s Flat Woodland Sanctuary. This wildlife reserve is the only one in Australia that is totally enclosed with very tall electrical fencing to prevent the […]
It is always a delight to visit Oatley Park Reserve during the Spring months to see the new arrivals of the waterbirds, as well as passerines. Though there are less than the usual numbers of species breeding here this year. The added feature this year is a family of Australasian Grebe that many have been returning daily to view the […]
Last week I shared the first part of our time in the Mid North Coast NSW area around Forster. On the last couple of days we drove further north to Port Macquarie where we stayed with my old school friend and his wife. We went right through school together and remained good friends. We stayed at their place which is […]
Finally, after several postponed holidays, due to Covid lock-downs, my wife and I made our way up the mid north coast for one precious week’s holiday, to an area where I used to live about ten years ago, where several of my family and friends live. We were so happy to finally embrace the grandchildren and see how they have […]
It has been delightful to walk through our local Oatley Park, hearing and seeing the returning migrant birds of the Summer months. Some of these are featured here below. The return of the Dollarbird is one example, and is easy to find as it always returns to the same dead tree tops every year, and its almost frog like classic […]
Finally, after 4 months my wife and I get to walk our favorite track again in the Royal National Park, known to locals as the Nasho. It was a beautiful warm day, and even after the week of heavy rain it had mostly dried up after the winds that followed. It was refreshing to hear the sound of Spring birds […]
Having finally come out of over 3 months lock-down here in Sydney, my wife and I decided to celebrate with a breakfast at our local National Park cafe, which we had missed for so long. Sadly, it was raining, as it had been several days now, but we sat outside under cover in the cool breeze enjoying the moment and […]
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