Scarlet-Chested Parrot Appreciation Day would NEVER be cancelled!

We jokingly made a plan to celebrate ‘Crested Pigeon Appreciation Day’ as we drove off to Murray Sunset National Park to search for our real

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This is for the birders who love to read about a success story! (Plains Wanderer, Ground Parrot and Superb Parrot)

Ross told me this is a bird blog and people like to read about birds. But this isn’t any post about birds, it’s a post about why Ross sees more birds than me.

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Birding Adventures Down Under: Chasing Parrots and Other Australian Treasures

It wasn’t until his cargo pants had a gigantic slit in the knee (from a fall in the Barren Grounds), a slice down the backside from squeezing between barbed wire, and about 4 holes in the crotch on top of the regular holes at the bottom where he kicks his feet together, all paired with a red shirt sporting its own 8 holes, that I begged him to change his attire.

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It Was Never A Countdown to Visiting Australia – It was a Countdown to Regent Honeyeaters!

It was never a countdown on when we would fly to Australia, it was always a countdown like “nine more days those Regents need to hang” or “48 hours until we see the Regent Honeyeaters!”

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