Birding at Townsville Town Common Conservation Park

As a reward for catching up my blog posts earlier this week, I spent much of the morning birding at the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park, a huge wetland and forest park on the outskirts of Tow...

Cuckoos

This morning, a blustery wind on the heels of rain shoved me with a breathy hand as I rode the parkway to James Cook University in an open-ended search for birds. I came away with a somewhat startling...

Falling Palm Leaves and Tropical Ramblings

In Bicentennial Park this morning, tiny biting midges attacked me with their pinpoints of fire, leaving my skin dotted with red splotches far more obvious than the minute insects that caused them. Mos...

Australian Grassfinches

This morning, the Ross River lay like satin painted in shades of sky and trees, its surface faintly rippled by gentle breeze and the movements of water birds – magpie geese, Pacific black ducks, egr...