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Category: Birds

  • labour of love… birds

    labour of love… birds

    Author Koh Lin ◦ With my labour of love… another popular subject are birds… class Aves. We are certainly grateful to the many contributors and authors on this topic, including Dorothy Latimer, whose many photographs and blogs have been a… Continue reading

  • Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Author Koh Lin ◦ Who hasn’t heard about Alice Springs… it is a wild place… and home to more then just art and culture… it is home to many creatures big and small… Ok… we may not have the biggest… Continue reading

  • What a Wonderful World…

    What a Wonderful World…

    Author Koh Lin ◦ One of my favourite songs growing up is What a Wonderful World, as sung by Louis Armstrong… the words resonating in my working day and through my life… I see trees of green, red roses too…… Continue reading

  • Wish I could fly…

    Wish I could fly…

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ Wish I could fly… Like high in the sky… Photographs © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy Latimer. Continue reading

  • Birding at sunrise…

    Birding at sunrise…

    Author Dorothy L. ◦ You have to get up early if you want to make it to your birding spot for sunrise… but the rewards are something special… Photographs © Dorothy Latimer Check out more blogs and contribution by Dorothy… Continue reading

  • 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