Posted in Birding on Feb 28th, 2007
This brilliant little blue-black, white, and scarlet bird is Australia’s only member of the flowerpecker family, and I’ve found them frustrating to observe. Sometimes I seem to go for months without seeing one, and then one day they’ll be common. Today was the latter, Peter and I saw several and then, just before we turned [...]
Posted in Other creatures on Feb 28th, 2007
I mean, there was I sitting quietly asleep in my tree after a night out eating gum leaves, when these two ugly looking humans came along and woke me up. Not only that, they were pointing shiny things at me and yelling out like ruffians trying to make me look at them. It’s more than [...]
A blog about the natural world of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Birds, insects, wildflowers, and anything else that poses for the camera.