Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we move through another week of lock-down I thought to share some interesting facts about our iconic Australian Black Swan which is the emblem of Western Australia (WA), the state it was first seen in by early European Dutch sailors in the 1600s while exploring the mysterious Great South Land as they sailed along the west coast, at the […]
While lock-down continues into another week for us, and prospects to go more than 5 km from home are currently banned, we have had to curtail our birding pursuits for the time being. So this week we focus an extraordinary small bird the Comb-crested Jacana, which is also known as the Jesus Bird because it appears to walk on water. […]
As we continue in lock-down and restricted to a 5 km radius of movement from our home, birding is almost impossible, but for our backyard birds, which are always a treat, as they become more trusting of us being around them. As I was writing this post one of our adult Crested Pigeons came and looked into my study window […]
As lock-down continues, and cases from the Delta strain continue to increase in Sydney, my wife and are now in quarantine isolation due a possible contact, and are not permitted to leave our home for two weeks. This means I had to be creative with this post and chose to feature our two unique Australian geese, which I have named […]
During the current lock-down we are entitled to a one hour walk each day. The problem is that people who normally do not grace our reserve came in large numbers in order to escape being inside all week, especially those with school children, as one more week of school holidays at home comes around the corner. This made it difficult […]
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