backyard birds

Let us no more speak of this week’s  extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey….

One of the things that I have always considered a positive about living on a sailboat, besides the obvious, is…

It’s been nearly three weeks since the family and I left Breckenridge but I’m still thinking about all the birds that…

It’s the time of the year again, where I leave the sometimes ephemeral Austral summer of New Zealand for a…

New Zealand can generate some interesting yard birds. We may not have huge numbers of species, but we can find…

Before we begin, I should note that despite my post last week, life is not always sunshine and big fish…

In contrast to last year, when I began my year in tropical Cairns in Queensland, Australia, I began this year’s…

I have, on two occasions no less, explained before that Cassowary House, near Cairns, is an exception place worth a…

There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise. They are feathered jewels with extraordinary breeding dances almost unrivalled  in the…

I’ve been traveling for the last little while, a trip down south on business followed by another throughout Nunavut. The…