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...

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...

Rosellas

A brief downpour awakened me in early morning’s darkness, its thrumming on the metal roof persistent, yet somehow comforting. A few minutes later, my 5 a.m. alarm rang, jolting me into groggy ac...