As the seasons turn, the weather is changing, birds are on the move and our coastal forest is left with fewer birds than have ever been experienced. The only three birds of any note we saw on our...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/03/25/the-happiest-bird-in-the-forest-the-butcherbird/
Yes, Autumn is the wonderful change of seasons, and for birds all over the world the flyways become busy as migratory species move to warmer or cooler climates to breed. The Bar-tailed Godwit, my...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/03/18/autumn-shorebird-birding-date-the-bar-tailed-godwit/
It’s Autumn again here, and the cool mornings is starting to sneak in around the hot days. It is also our wedding anniversary, and since we are not going away to celebrate this year we thought ...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/03/11/an-autumn-birding-date-brekkie-in-the-nasho/
We are back visiting Wagga Wagga again in the south west of our state, where we were caring for my wife’s sister in recovery from recent surgery. First impressions around the usually green gras...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/03/04/the-hot-dry-west-birding-lake-albert/
This week I have a post with a difference, highlighting Australian wildlife road warning signs, which I have not posted for many years. Since that time more new signs have been added from our tra...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/02/27/the-road-to-conservation-australian-wildlife-signs/
Another walk through our now very quiet forest, devoid of the calls of many of the Summer birds, with just a few of the regulars, and of course the raucous screech of the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/02/20/time-to-work-rest-and-play-the-superb-fairy-wren/
The weather has been so unsavory for birding this last week, with days alternating from very hot to very cold, wet and windy. However, I did find a cool overcast day where I just needed to get ou...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/02/13/a-mindful-moment-eastern-spinebill-rufous-fantail/
This week due to unfavorable birding weather my focus is on our tiny native seed eaters, the Finches. The Sparrow is the Finch of the Northern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, the House Sparrow was int...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/02/06/tiny-seed-eaters-finches-firetails-mannikins-and-sparrows/
This has been a most unusual year so far for us birding. The weather and whatever else has resulted in a notable absence or depletion of expected birds for Summer in the wild. We took two of my g...
This Post focuses on some of the controversial references to Eagles in the Bible, which people have raised on previous occasions. References to Eagles appears 28 times as Nesher in the Hebrew. Th...
https://aussiebirder.com/2024/01/22/carried-on-eagles-wings-the-white-bellied-sea-eagle/