Bathing birds

Like many other Australians, I have been working at home during the Covid Crisis. I’ve found the best place to work is on a table on the back deck of my house, where I am out with the birdlife. The best birds from the deck during that time were a couple of Glossy Blacks flying . . . → Read More: Bathing birds

Night Parrot Night Vision

May not be that great. Fairfax is running an item today – if you can’t access it there is an earlier publication –

phys.org/news/2020-06-mysterious-australian-night-parrots-dead.html

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Echidna quills

The quills were intact, sharp and all neatly facing the same way. I did not examine the scats in detail to determine if there was any blood. This ability of the canine bowel was also demonstrated in a photograph of an X-ray (I think it was in a Veterinary Surgery text) showing 23 (?) thumb . . . → Read More: Echidna quills