It's that time of year. Unlike in the northern hemisphere, Australia doesn't get the sharp temperature drop that winter brings. Here this is the time of year when rain is getting more regular, plants are greener and flowers are blooming, and birds are breeding ( Read more... )

About a week ago the sea wall at Saemangeum Peninsula in Korea was finally closed ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got up at 5am, drove 300 kilometres and saw around 80 species of birds. 3 of them were lifers ( Read more... )

Early night (was actually hoping to be in bed by 9, but getting there before 10 still has me surprised).

Tomorrow I get up at 4:30/5:00 to drive down to woop-woop and hopefully see lots of birds. I'll tell you about tomorrow arvo if I'm conscious enough.

I reckon I saw about 100 wild grey roos today at Whiteman Park. They were all hanging out in a paddock, under trees or grazing.

Saw a bunch of birds too, but nothing massively exciting or out of the ordinary.

Swarovski has a birding site ( Read more... )

"...we resolved to make a nature documentary entitled "You Should Have Been Here Yesterday", which would feature shots of the perches that rare species had just vacated only moments before."

...I took a photo of the fence post the Rosy Starling sat upon - about a year after it was seen there.

Having just spent 9 months in close proximity with migratory waders (east Asian Australasian flyway) I've learned a bit and formed some opinions ( Read more... )

Hah, I've told you this before haven't I ( Read more... )

I decided to head up the scarp. I ended up doing the loop road around John Forrest National Park and then winding my way through Parkeville to the tavern then back out to the highway ( Read more... )