A stint back in SA

Little Stints are remarkable, small, sweet calidris waders. Each one weighs about 21 grams but manages a migration of up … More

Bogey Birds: The Sequel

Back in Feb I wrote a blog post entitled “Double Bogey”, describing how I finally connected with two Australian birds … More

What could be better than a “Red Letter day”? Perhaps a “Scarlet Letter day”! There are good arguments that South … More

To “dip” on on a bird is to try to see it, but fail. All birders dip from time to … More

We are lucky, living in Adelaide, to be only a 3-and-a-bit hour drive from Gluepot Reserve, a former cattle station … More

Twenty-eight years ago – quite literally, half a life-time – I brought Nikki to WA for a holiday. We’d been … More

By the end of 2021 my Australian list was over 600 and there were almost no destinations left where I … More

Eaglehawk Neck is a sliver of land barely a few hundred metres wide that divides the Tasman peninsula, SE of … More

When I left off recounting the tale of my 2021 birding saga, I had just completed a trip up to … More

Day 4, Sept 30 The journey up on Day 2, plus a full day 3 in the Mungerannie region had … More