A Visit Home

Five years is a long time. I’d last visited home before the covid stuff, but I eventually got home to see family and friends, eat a lot, and spend some time with my beloved Australian nature this August. I could write about everyone and everything as a detailed summary, but I feel it’s December now, and time has passed. No need to write about the details. Just tell that it was the highlight of my year, and I want to say thank you to all.

I will say I had the most amazing experience with this beautiful Square-tailed Kite who didn’t care about me standing right in front of it when it came and broke off nesting materials, then circled all around me. What a wonderful experience.

Black Falcon

In Ravensbourne

Black-faced Monarch

Ravensbourne National Park, Queensland, Australia

January 3, 2014

Time does go by quite quickly. These are bird encounters at Ravensbourne National Park with Kay and Kevin Williams back at the start of 2014.

Brown Thornbill

(above and below)

Eastern Yellow Robin

(Above and below)

Green Catbird

(Above and below)

Australian Magpies

(In early morning chorus)

Noisy Pitta

(Pretty excited about this one)

Straw-necked Ibis