Welcome to our website for the study and appreciation of Australian birds and their interesting behaviours.
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 […]
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 […]
While we continue in lock-down and the 5 km radius rule, we recently realized it also included our favorite local park Oatley Park Reserve. On previous walks here in the past few weeks there was hardly anything worth reporting, however, on our walks last weekend we were surprised to find a hive of activity, as my post will uncover. To start with, as I walked along the track where usually we would see many birds, it was very quiet, for many migrating birds had not returned this Spring, possibly due to the millions of birds lost in the fire storms down south last Summer which normally migrate here for the warmer weather. As I walked along I said to God, […]
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