WTNTs

Saw about 200 White-throated Needletails along a1km stretch of the road from Leyburn to Karara in SE Queensland. S28 07 03 E151 33 38 is where I stopped about 100 metres or so south of the start. The birds were at the south end of a band of rain. There was an extraordinary cloud of . . . → Read More: WTNTs

A Blackbird in the garden

A blackbird in the garden; global warming?

In Tromsø, N. Norway (c 70*N) we have been very lucky with the weather these last weeks. While S. Norway groans under a series of winter storms and a surfeit of snow, we up here have enjoyed weeks of clear winter weather (now -11*C), without the now all . . . → Read More: A Blackbird in the garden