Bushwalking Alligator Creek Track

Nearly five months after Vilis and I bushwalked the first few kilometres of Alligator Creek Track under blistering sun in early February, vowing we would return and complete the hike in winter, we, al...

Bush Stone-curlew Beauty

Today, for the first time, I became frustrated with rainbow lorikeets. There were simply too many racing across  the sky above Townsville. They flocked into flowering gums and paperbarks, their shril...

Townsville Winter Morning

It is said that a picture speaks a thousand words; therefore, I let this picture speak for me. I title it simply Winter Morning in Townsville.   Today’s birds: Australian magpies, rainbow l...

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...