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A couple of cursory photos from a Narrandera, near Griffith, NSW. I was down there for a fish workshop over the last couple of days (no new birds though).

Here’s a couple of Alex’s slideshows, from his PhD field trip adventures. Some people have got it tough, don’t they?

After my near-death fall in early 2006, I said that my attitude to life hadn’t changed - I’d always appreciated my fortunate life, loved ones etc… But, 18 months on, I think some of my attitudes have changed. In particular, my attitude towards risk and, more specifically, risk taking. I am now more aware of [...]

Ever since I gave my summer pub bike to young Brit, seen here hitching a ride with Chrisso, I’ve been looking for a replacement. Brit won the bike from Chooky, a fisheries colleague, in a dramatic series of challenges (including rock-paper-scissors). Chooky, to be fair, put up a good fight, but, like a chivalrous knight, [...]

“Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water’s worth.”
- Lord Byron. Don Juan (canto II, st. 84)

This is the Macquarie Marshes Southern Nature Reserve floodplain. It is listed under the Ramsar convention as a wetland of ’significant value for humanity as a whole’. Together with the Northern Reserve, the area [...]