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Tag: Birding

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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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A Perfect Team – The Australian Shelduck

This week following our Federal Elections we learn how important team work is to achieving our goals. I have previously referred to the excellency of the male Australian Wood Duck as a father and how he stays with the one female to breed and live for a lifetime. And how he faithfully remains with her throughout the life long process, […]

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The Food Snatchers – Clever Birds

Several of Australia’s endemic birds are known for their boldness, opportunism and ability to learn techniques often copied from other birds they have observed to steal food from the hands of unsuspecting picnicers. This has been our experience here and that of many others. So this is my topic for this post. We took my second grandson while he was […]

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The Quest for Summer Fruits

Many if not most of Australia’s birds are fruit eaters. Most of our forest birds are, and while many birds may be omnivorous they do enjoy the odd berry or fig when it is ripe. After all the rain recently,now in the middle of our Summer, many of our native trees and vines are fruiting with ripe berries and figs. […]