Archive for April, 2008

I keep a daily eye on the bird baths in our garden. On several other occasions I have written about the visitors to the bird bath and I even have a list of those species to have paid at least one visit.
This morning as I finished my breakfast and was attempting to solve the cryptic […]

All the really hot weather we had earlier in the year seems to have flown. We have recently had some lovely days in the low 20s with a gentle breeze; lovely weather to be out and about in the garden. Yesterday we had a break from what we were doing and made a cuppa to […]

The latest edition of I and the bird #73 is hosted by Snail from Snail’s Eye View down under here in Australia.
This time it is a tribute to Samuel Pepys. As usual this carnival devoted to birds has links to articles about birds from all over the world. It’s worth a visit.
This time I remembered […]

White Winged Chough
One of our favourite species of bird here where we live in Murray Bridge South Australia is the White Winged Chough. At first glance, the inexperienced observer might dismiss them as a crow or raven or just another large black bird. We think differently of them.
We have a family of Choughs that has […]

One of the frequent visitors we have in our garden are the local Grey Currawongs. I can’t really call them a resident species because they are not here all the time. They are only visitors. Sometimes they visit every day for a week or more, then we won’t see or hear them for several days.
When […]