Great Bowerbird Bower

In the Ross River Parkway in Idalia, Australian magpies carolled loudly from atop a pair of tall gums that tossed twisted, kinked branches against the sky. Welcome swallows performed an avian Ballet o...

Birding Ross River Dam Wetland with TRBOC

Beneath a clear sky promising more of this nation’s 19-degrees-from-the-equator heat, Vilis and I joined the Townsville Region Bird Observers Club for an excursion to Ross River Dam. Located sou...

Shelley Beach, Townsville

With the cool air of an early winter morning wafting over us, Vilis, Janis, and I left the Kia in the Bald Rock car park in the Townsville Town Common Conservation Park and hiked south around the west...

Ross River Birds and Cunyu’s Rocky Uplands in Western Australia

Western Australia, Day 19 Townsville: Many times I’ve walked alongside the Ross River and been disappointed at its dearth of water birds on the river section that runs through Bicentennial Park. Not...