Swifts over Artarmon, Sydney

Hi everyone, While playing in the garden in Artarmon, Sydney with my 3yo grandson at 11am (life is hard) I spotted 5 or 6 swifts overhead. They were probably Fork Tailed but I didn’t have my binoculars with me at the time and to the naked eye I didn’t see any forked tail. They seemed … Read more

The Big Year

Hi All, This is not an advert but Qantas is now showing “The Big Year” on those flights where you can select your own movies. A really enjoyable film about twitchers and their antics. The Big Year is a 2011 comedy film starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Jim Parsons, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston, … Read more

Earthflight and “wooden” Australian voice-over and the importance of narrators

I find it interesting the power a voice-over artist can have over a documentary. Here in North America we have a series called Planet Earth which is absolutely stunning. However they chose to have Oprah Winfrey narrate! It took me some time to get over Oprah as a narrator of a serious scientific documentary series. … Read more