I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of week 4 of semester already.
so far I’m pretty up to date, and I put the paperwork in and dropped the extra archaeology paper today, so I’m only doing a 12 credit load, rather than the 15 I was enrolled in (yikes!).
meanwhile Tom is having fun in Tassie [...]
well, for unknown reasons our ADSL2 went down on thursday last week, and I have spent the last 4 days trying to get it back on, growing more and more desperate. I have become, prehaps, a bit too attached to instant, fast, wireless internet access.. should I maybe have spent the internet free moments [...]
I arrived in Hobart and Tim, my host, was keen to get my 50 birds. It’s been the same all the way through: people have adopted my little project as their own. They say things like, “I know where we can get ’such-and-such bird’. I’ll take you out there now”. Then, sure enough, on the [...]
The wonderful thing about modern air travel is that people can travel far and wide relatively cheaply. The problem is that the service tends to decline - no seat allocations, no food, no in-flight entertainment, no check-in for sporting goods! Wait, no sporting goods? WTF? That’s right, I have just had to leave Timtim’s bike [...]
The birding over the last few days has been nothing short of incredible - everything we’ve been hunting has called, flown around, come down from the canopy, sat in sunlit patches to be photographed and left us in awe.
17. scarlet honeyeater
(19/8/06, Herveys Range Lookout)
25. white-browed robin
(20/8/06, Melaleuca stand near Giru)
30. golden bowerbird
(22/8/06, Birthday Ck, [...]