Home from Western Australia

This morning, the hunt was on. A great bowerbird slowly swallowed a spider with a distended, grey abdomen. A white-bellied cuckoo-shrike devoured one insect and immediately flew into an adjacent tree ...

Smart Dingoes

Townsville: Warm wind rustled palm fronds in our yard and blew dead fronds slithering down onto the ground where they landed with resounding thuds. It seemed a harbinger of something new, some change ...

As Winter Solstice Approaches

Western Australia, Day 20 Townsville: Cold wind buffeted my bare limbs as I walked quickly into Idalia via the Bowen Road bridge and Ross River Parkway. From the bridge, the sun painted stark images o...

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...