I have been busy busy in the past few months, hence the lack of recent posts. It is a simple fact that those who do most have least time to post on their blogs.
It has been a very dry warm spring in Canberra after a long dry winter. This has resulted in fewer birds breeding and those that have bred have fewer young than in years of more amenable weather. All of the bush in south-east Australia is now either burnt or under threat of fire, millions of animals and plants are being destroyed and the small proportion of unburnt habitat left will be too small to harbour decent sizes of populations from which to restock the wider damaged area. It will take decades if not hundreds of years for the forests to regenerate and their whole ecosystems to recover.
So that is how 2019 is ending here.
I'll leave with a video of the rosellas in my garden enjoying the water I provide for them.
It's good to share and look after friends.
