Recent additions

I have just added another book review to the site, of Alex Miller’s Landscape of Farewell. It’s part of a sporadic process of republishing old reviews and other articles on the blog; each is posted under the date of its first publication so the quickest way to find them (if you’re curious) is to scroll to the bottom of the drop-down “Archives” menu at right.

Birding from Mingela to Clare

On Sunday I enjoyed a longer-than-usual BirdLife expedition, a round trip from Townsville to Ravenswood via Mingela, returning via Clare and Cromarty for a total of nearly 300km. One of the reasons I accepted the invitation so enthusiastically was that I had never been over the ranges from Ravenswood to Clare and, as I said when I first wrote about the Wildlife Qld excursions, it’s great to be introduced to new places off the beaten track.

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