The early winter months down here are very quiet in our local parks, having fewer bird species and almost no current wildflowers to feed the many nectar eaters. However, our insectivorous birds including the Superb Fairy-wren, Grey Fantail, Eastern Yellow Robin, Golden Whistler, White-browed Scrubwren, Brown and Striated Thornbills and the Magpies, continue to thrive during this period. Several of […]

Finally, there came a day when I could walk in our favorite reserve after days of rain. While it was still overcast and my wife was busy teaching English for Living, I decided to take a walk alone and chat with God in the quietness of our Autumn forest, which is characteristically the most bird few month of the year, […]

It was our Wedding Anniversary again and we chose not to go away but have a lovely day out in the city at our local famous Taronga Park Zoo, which we both love visiting to see the Regent Honeyeater they are breeding for future release. We catch a train into the city, a ferry across our beautiful Sydney Harbour and […]