Note: if there appear to be formatting errors in this e-mail (such as photo size, shape, or caption issues), please click on “Read on Blog” at the top right corner of the note to read the blog post online. 2026/07/28: Lake Argyle and Kununurra, WA Had an exciting birding cruise on Lake Argyle, the primary […]
Category: Natural History
Australia: The Top End
Note: if there appear to be formatting errors in this e-mail (such as photo size, shape, or caption issues), please click on “Read on Blog” at the top right corner of the note to read the blog post online. 2026/07/14: Pine Creek, NT Had a leisurely breakfast outside this morning, listening to the many birds […]
Australia: The Red Centre
Note: if there appear to be formatting errors in this e-mail (such as photo size, shape, or caption issues), please click on “Read on Blog” at the top right corner of the note to read the blog post online. 2026/06/30: MacDonnell Range, NT Walked around the bottom of the gorge in the morning and evening, […]
Australia: To the Outback
Note: if there appear to be formatting errors in this e-mail, please click on “Read on Blog” at the top right corner of the note to read the blog post online. 2026/06/16: Atherton Tableland, Qld, Aus We quickly checked for the tree kangaroo early this morning but it had moved. Got breakfast in town at […]
Australia: Northeast Queensland
2026/06/02: Bramston Beach, Qld We enjoyed a short morning at beautiful Etty Bay (checkout time 10 a. m., unfortunately), during which I got a blog post issued. We then relocated to Bramston Beach to visit a cave with a colony of Common Dusky Leaf-nosed Bats. We were very fortunate to have precise directions from a […]
Australia: Southeast Queensland
2026/05/19: Transit to Lamington NP, Qld It rained the entire day as we drove to O’Reilly’s, where we camp for 3 nights. We got in around 3 pm and the rain tapered off but it was foggy and the wind ramped up, so we did not do anything outdoors. Eileen saw a Whip-tailed Wallaby as […]
Australia: Sydney to Northern New South Wales
[Previously, I have written blog posts that synthesize retrospectively what we experienced during a preceding time period, organizing the information using the perspective gained over a number of weeks. We are currently traveling in Australia on a 6-month road trip around the continent, and it does not look like there will be time to write […]
2025 Wrap-Up
Between two road trips and two international birding tours, the bits and pieces of field work we did around Tallahassee after April did not get reported in any blog post. This short entry addresses that omission and provides a brief wrap-up of the year. Photos are all from the Florida Panhandle. In the four weeks […]
Autumnal Adventures
Quite a bit of our camping in recent years has been in areas at times of year that were quite uncomfortable, often because that was when and where interesting plants were flowering. This year we made a pretty successful attempt to travel when and where amenable climate is expected, using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG), the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, has been our top priority destination for the last four years. The top draws here are seven bird families endemic to New Guinea (found nowhere else); and the birds-of-paradise, most of which occur only here. It took us three attempts to get […]