Archive for the 'Birds' Category

It has been a long time since I last promoted this blogging carnival about birds. It has been even longer since I last contributed to the best bird blogging carnival in the world – I and the bird. The 133rd issue of this event has just been posted. Click on the link below to go [...]

The fifth Australian Birdfair at Leeton, central NSW is on again this year. It will be held on 17th to the 19th September. Leeton is between Narrandera and Griffith and an easy drive north west of the regional city of Wagga Wagga. It is also an easy day’s drive from both Melbourne and Sydney, a [...]

Everyone interested in birds needs at least one field guide to help with the identification of the birds being seen. I have several. Ten, in fact. Six of them are Australian field guides, plus I have one covering the birds of South East Asia, one of the Indian sub-continent and two for the British Isles [...]

Last week I attended the 2010 Adelaide Writers’ Week. This popular event is an important feature of the Festival of Arts held here every two years. Writers and readers come from all over Australia and attendees are treated to a large contingent of guest speakers, some Australian but many from overseas, with a sprinkling of [...]

I’m back. It has been a while since my last post. I’ve been here most of the time but I’ve been very busy coping with life. My studies have distracted me for many weeks now, but I can finally see the end of my course work. Then I had a short stay in the local [...]