Summary: Unique and interesting birding site providing a few different habitats in close proximity Dates of visits: Eight or more visits between 2021 and 2024. You’d have to think a nature site that encompasses grassland, bushland, tidal wetland, a bird hide and Brisbane’s best mangrove boardwalk would be pretty good, right? This is such aContinue reading “Lytton Wader Roost and Wynnum Boardwalk”
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Top End Revisited, Jul 2024
We made a ten day trip made from July 19 to July 28, 2024, mainly visiting nature sites around Darwin and Kakadu National Park, a journey very similar to one we made back in 2021. So we knew what we were getting ourselves in for… rainless – usually cloudless – days, tropical heat, and moreContinue reading “Top End Revisited, Jul 2024”
Hardings Paddock, 2020-2024
Summary: Great site for a good variety of bush birds, especially in winter Dates of visits: Several from 2020 to 2024 Hardings Paddock is an excellent birding site in the Ipswich city area. It is a little hard to make generalisations about this location, as it tends to vary quite a bit from season toContinue reading “Hardings Paddock, 2020-2024”
Iron Range, Nov 2023
Summary: Remote tropical lowland rainforest with unique and special birding Dates of visit: Nov 13 to 17, 2023 Kutini-Payamu or Iron Range National Park is a large national park in Cape York, right at the top of Queensland. Biologically this region is heavily influenced by nearby Papua New Guinea, providing a smorgasbord of birds thatContinue reading “Iron Range, Nov 2023”
Birding in the Pacific Northwest, 2024
We were never going to pretend that this leg of our epic Central and North America trip was going to be a comprehensive tour of the Pacific Northwest; that would probably take months to do properly. But we would dabble here and there: fly into Seattle, explore a few parks and places around there, headContinue reading “Birding in the Pacific Northwest, 2024”
Birding in Chicago, 2024
Chicago, the windy city, hosts many migrating birds in spring and in May 2024 also hosted two Australian bird enthusiasts. Was it windy? Yes, and it was sometimes rainy, but fortunately we had a few sunny days to explore some major hotspots as well as appreciate the impressive city architecture and a few of theContinue reading “Birding in Chicago, 2024”
Birding in Arizona and Nevada, 2024
The next region on our epic five-week North American birding tour started with big ole Arizona. We flew into Tucson from Texas (another state that experiences an influx during migration) and drove straight to Portal way down in south-east Arizona. We then worked our way back west and north, in what came to be theContinue reading “Birding in Arizona and Nevada, 2024”
Birding in south Texas, 2024
Texas! It’s the Lone Star state, where everything is bigger. But did you know that south Texas is one of the most biodiverse areas in the USA? We did, so we planned to go there as the first stop on our 5-week North America birding trip. It was mid-April, just getting into the peak levelsContinue reading “Birding in south Texas, 2024”
Birding in Costa Rica, 2024
Costa Rica has long been known as a birder’s paradise and is one of the best, if not the best country in Central America to spend some time birding in. We flew direct from Brisbane, Australia to Los Angeles and then after a mere six hour layover, into San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.Continue reading “Birding in Costa Rica, 2024”
Green Island, Nov 2023
Summary: Lovely rainforest island not far from Cairns with some interesting birdlife Date of visit: Nov 18 2023 Green Island is a small island of 12 hectares in the Great Barrier Reef, accessible in around 40 minutes by ferry from Cairns. It is the only coral cay on the reef that has rainforest, and itContinue reading “Green Island, Nov 2023”
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