Autumn Life One of the surest signs of autumn is the wonderful smell of petrichore - one of my favourite smells, and favourite words - a...

New Eagle Book Following on from the last post, I give you news of the publication of the book on golden eagles that Adam Watson and I ...

Adam Watson At the end of January, a great friend died, Adam Watson. I'll miss him, of course I will. We did so much together and...

Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus And now a garden butterfly. There is no need to go bush in the heat to see butterflies as in th...

More hot - more butterflies It's still hot in Canberra, so over the weekend I was down at the coast where it was a little cooler, le...