Little Stints are remarkable, small, sweet calidris waders. Each one weighs about 21 grams but manages a migration of up … More
Category: Local birding
Rajasthan, India (second innings)
Thank you for joining me for the second innings! In the first dig I concentrated on the #1 target of … More
Red Letter Day
What could be better than a “Red Letter day”? Perhaps a “Scarlet Letter day”! There are good arguments that South … More
Back-to-back Gluepot
We are lucky, living in Adelaide, to be only a 3-and-a-bit hour drive from Gluepot Reserve, a former cattle station … More
2021 Wrap
When I left off recounting the tale of my 2021 birding saga, I had just completed a trip up to … More
Lake Gilles
I last visited Lake Gilles in 2016. Paul Coddington and I had tried to go up the Strzelecki Track but … More
The Large Year
As readers of this blog (all one of me) will know, I am now year-listing for SA in 2021. Having … More
Marooned on 299
The continuing adventures of a recently-confessed year-lister… When I left off after the last blog post, I was on 282 … More
Year listing
Birding around the Fleurieu Peninsula, the Coorong and the Mallee I’ve said a few times on this blog, and on … More
Video-scoping
I am first and foremost a birder, not photographer, even though I do take photos. Video comes a fairly distant … More