Australian Extreme Weather Events

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...

A Bower, Black Saturday, and Black Flying Foxes

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...