I’ve birded some sites which are pretty iconic in terms of bush birding in Australia. These include: Chiltern Forest (Vic), Larapinta Trail (NT), Nourlangie Rock (NT), Lawn Hill (Qld), Bladensburg NP (Qld), the Piliga (NSW), Washpool NP (NSW), Dorrigo NP (NSW), Mornington Sanctuary (WA), Capertee Valley (NSW), Gross Valley (NSW), practically the entire Simpson Desert, [...]
On the north Western Australia coastline lies the small and charismatic tourist town of Broome. The town, established in the 19th century as a pearling centre has since become known as the “gateway to the Kimberley” and is a tourist mecca for lovers of nature, adventure and good times from across the planet. There’s plenty [...]
It’s been a pretty big couple of weeks for me. My trip to Roebuck Bay delivered a bunch of rarities and rare vagrants, including a second Australian record. You always expect a rarity or two when you visit the Broome region – its situation in the broader geography and the structure of the vegetation and [...]
I’ve just returned to Sydney from my mozzie dome in the campground of Broome Bird Observatory, on the shores of Roebuck Bay, North Western Australia. During my time in Broome I witnessed tens of thousands of shorebirds preparing for their annual migratory journeys to Asia and, for many, well within the Arctic Circle on Northern [...]
It’s always interested me how each year a couple of species of plants seem to enjoy a flowering abundance which overshadows the efforts of all other species. So far this year, the prize on the Northern Beaches of Sydney has to go to the Red Bloodwood (Eucalyptus gumifera). So profuse has the flowering of these [...]
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