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...

Ross River Musings

In late afternoon, a flock of straw-necked ibises and a single Australian white ibis foraged on the golf course. The club’s grass is still sodden from heavy rains two days ago that fell in fits ...

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...