This summer has seen a spectacular flowering of Sweet Bursaria. In mid-January I visited Tipperary Springs and the creekline vegetation…
The bushfire crisis: how to help
The internet and social media is awash with hundreds of ways to held wildlife and humans in this bushfire crisis,…
Our local stars: daisies
One of my favourite things about early summer is the abundant flowering of a prime patch of Showy Podolepis along…
Book review: The Big Twitch written 12 years ago!
I was looking through my old filing cabinet last week and I discovered a hand written book review: The Big…
Kingfisher returns: kek kek kek!
A Sacred Kingfisher started calling at our bush block today– with a loud and far- carrying ‘kek kek kek kek’!…
The geese saga of Lake Daylesford
This photo shows the Lake Daylesford geese in their new home, a private animal sanctuary in the Mornington Peninsula. Here,…
When eagles get frisky
Nature Diary has a new home! After ten years, and increasing frustration with the Advocate, I am now being published…
The globe-trotting fungus lover
This article is printed in Cosmos #83 Alison Pouliot has spent two decades following the fungi. Each year she moves…
Chuffed with Choughs
Wheezing, whistling and whining – our two young White-winged Choughs have added to the usual cacophony of their family group…
Book review:Journeys to the other side of the world, by Sir David Attenborough
A version of this book review appeared in Issue 81 of Cosmos Magazine Famed for his distinctive narration with hushed…
