River Gift

Note that my desert-trip post for September 28 is now published – The Red Centre – West MacDonnell National Park: Ormiston Gorge, Ormiston Pound, Serpentine Gorge. This post may have more photogra...

Aussie Swallows

Given the chance to be a bird, I would choose the incredible speed, agility, and grace of a swallow, preferably one of the species with a glistening blue-black back and long, forked tail. Australia...

Pheasant Coucal

I saw my first pheasant coucal in January in Townsville, running along the top of a wooden, back-yard fence under an orange-flowering poinciana tree, its long tail like a wedding train behind it. Soon...

Cane Toad Explosion and Bowerbird Toys

Early this morning beside a drying wetland in the Townsville development of Fairfield Waters, lawns and beds of wood-chips squirted frogs – hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of frogs. At first, ...