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Category: Birds

  • More treasures to be had…

    More treasures to be had…

    Author Koh Lin ◦ Looking beyond the bower…  Our Western Bowerbird has been around for many years now… from our very first blog Treasures of our Western Bowerbird (July 2020), we wrote about the bower being there in our garden… Continue reading

  • memories of my father…

    memories of my father…

    Author Koh Lin ◦ I often think of my father… catching fragments of memories from my youth and the times that have indelibly kept a place in that space called memories… Yet it is strange, how sometimes just a simple… Continue reading

  • Art of Birds – Sequel

    Art of Birds – Sequel

    Author Koh Lin ◦ Photographer Dorothy Latimer ◦ Why speak, when an image can resonate all that is needed… Check out our following listed pages on the images of the birds above: Continue reading

  • Fleeting moments of reflection

    Fleeting moments of reflection

    Author Dorothy L ◦ Sometimes life is just about those moments of reflection… Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybrida) at the Alice Springs Sewage PondsPhotographs © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy Latimer. Continue reading

  • a solitary performance

    a solitary performance

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ It was a cold damp morning, the sun had barely risen… the solitary ripple set the stage for the solo performance of the Willie Wagtail. Willy Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs… Continue reading

  • Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023

    Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023

    Alice Springs Beanie Festival Author Koh Lin ◦ Wow… the Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2023 has done it again… known as the Beanie Centre of the world, the iconic festival event that brings beanies from around Australia and also from… Continue reading

  • It was all over in three frames

    It was all over in three frames

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ We were all getting along nicely, when suddenly the Singing Honeyeater decided it wasn’t getting enough attention. The Singing Honeyeater lashed out at the Hooded Robin and being female, she wasn’t putting up with it. It… Continue reading

  • Strike a pose

    Strike a pose

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ First I have to find the right rock… Action replay… Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy L. Continue reading

  • Secrets in my garden…

    Secrets in my garden…

    Author Koh Lin ◦ As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people. With the growing interest in the natural world around… Continue reading

  • Now where did we leave our child…

    Now where did we leave our child…

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ I am telling you… this is where we left the baby… Well lets keep looking… Ok… let daddy try calling for junior… Baby… baby… is it time to leave the creche… You can read more on… Continue reading

  • A bit of Ruff at the Poo Ponds

    A bit of Ruff at the Poo Ponds

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ Five minutes of being inside the gates of the Alice Springs sewage ponds and I spotted the Australian Pratincole!! Wonderful find, click, click, click. The crows, at least 25 to 30 of them, were continually harassing… Continue reading

  • Little Dave Part 7: “The Conclusion”

    Little Dave Part 7: “The Conclusion”

    Author David Rennie ◦ I feel it’s a good time to end Little Dave’s Story. The last time I photographed him was the day that I was lying on my stomach, in the water, in the Sniper suit shooting Deb… Continue reading