For the first time in months, I carried an umbrella when walking to the store this afternoon, rain spitting down around me, the street pavement damp, strips and small puddles of water lying against cu...
Early this morning, I rose from sleep and headed to the Ross River Parkway for a bash of birding, the highlight of which was sighting a great bowerbird – fawn-coloured with a brown, grey-scalloped d...