Dear all Just back from a few days WITHOUT rain (and a few days with rain) out beyond the G D Range. We caught the short window of clear weather and enjoyed warm days with light sun as there was usually some cloud cover. However couldn’t access Gundabooka National Park on arrival at Bourke and … Read more
Back to Earth, thank you Debbie & others. A beautiful male Paradise Riflebird is showing well and calling on Coachwood Drive, Washpool NP, NSW. This can be viewed from the road, surely one of the easiest to see Paradise Riflebirds I’ve come across. Rufous Scrub-bird also calling frequently nearby. There is no “them”, only us. … Read more
We have just got back from a month in Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritus……fantastic 170 new birds and the lemurs….ahhhh A downside of coming home is to wade through so many opinionated and largely irrelevant Birding-Aus emails. Out of 500 plus, I would like to thank Simon and Mike et al for their tropicbird info….(sore fingers … Read more
I have been reading people’s opinions about the money being charged to see Princess Parrots and can hold off no longer. There is an underlying racism that lurks, a nasty little secret, beneath the comments of many. How else to explain well-meaning discussions along these lines (and I paraphrase): ‘If it teaches them – Indigenous … Read more
I am flying out of Brisbane to see Princess Parrots tomorrow. It’s on the credit card (I’m by no means a man of means!) and I will consider it money well spent. I would gladly have spent that extra money while I was on the Mereenie Loop in August to be allowed to travel the … Read more