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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, […]
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 […]
This is the quiet time of the year for the birds in our local nature reserve as they either migrate back to the warmer regions further north or just become quieter since they are out of their active exciting breeding seasons. However, some birds continue to breed into our winter months as it stays warmer now longer. This Rainbow Lorikeet […]
Last weekend my wife and I travelled to Canberra our nation’s capital city to visit family and visit the Pompey Exhibition in the National Museum. Canberra is a completely man made city constructed on sheep grazing areas half way between Sydney and Melbourne our two major cities. The reason being that each city thought it should be the nation’s capital, […]
Since the weather here has so far been unseasonably wet and windy for Autumn, birding has been somewhat out of the question so I thought revisit a film I made some years ago regarding birding plumage and the various stages, for those interested, especially those who have not seen this video. The Superb Fairy-wren male, which many of us know […]
It is that time of year again when the Bar-tailed Godwit and other migratory waders are fattening up for their epic journey back to the Arctic Circle to Siberia and Alaska, travelling some 8.000 km (5,000 miles) to nest and give birth to their next generation. Notice the orange plumage of the above male Godwit as he is already breeding […]
It was our Wedding Anniversary again and we chose not to go away but have a lovely day out in the city at our local famous Taronga Park Zoo, which we both love visiting to see the Regent Honeyeater they are breeding for future release. We catch a train into the city, a ferry across our beautiful Sydney Harbour and […]
The last few posts have featured some of our rather secretive rainforest birds which most Australians and many birders never get to see in the wild. Our very dense dark damp rainforest habitats have several birds that are equipped with protective plumage and behaviours that assist to make them safe from predation. We previously showcased the Bassian and Russet-tailed Thrush […]
Last Saturday we took a lovely young couple of new birder friends to our local Royal National Park for a walk and a lunch. At first it was fairly quiet with birds but quite noisy with Cicadas, as it is here mid Summer. We saw a good selection of species and my wife and I were glad to pass on […]
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