HarPer’s bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany

Spring in Canberra this year has had an abundance of wet weather and variably cool mornings. Conditions which are ideal for a pathogenic fun...

Winter Damselflies There are a lot of comments around at the moment by people noticing that some birds seem to think winter is over alre...

Early one morning last week, I was wandering up my street (bird watching) and noticed a group of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos on the ro...

It was Saturday afternoon and 40 degrees outside. I was in the relative comfort of the study, the fan blowing a cooling breeze, when ...

Last Wednesday I took a lunchtime stroll along the northern edge of West Basin, a section of Lake Burley Griffin. It is just across Par...