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Category: Nature Reserves

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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 insectivorous birds including the Superb Fairy-wren, Grey Fantail, Eastern Yellow Robin, Golden Whistler, White-browed Scrubwren, Brown and Striated Thornbills and the Magpies, continue to thrive during this period. Several of […]

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Surprises in the Quiet Autumn Forest.

Finally, there came a day when I could walk in our favorite reserve after days of rain. While it was still overcast and my wife was busy teaching English for Living, I decided to take a walk alone and chat with God in the quietness of our Autumn forest, which is characteristically the most bird few month of the year, […]

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Early Christmas – The Little Corella Tree

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 […]