Notes from the field: what we saw, where we went, and what surprised us.
Thursday 30 July 2026
A photography tour west from Kuranda into the dry country. Australian Bustard through morning mist, a bowerbird at work at Mt Carbine, and more than three thousand frames in five hours. Photographs taken on this tour.
Monday 6 July 2026
A half-day out of Kuranda into the Mareeba savannah country. Australian Bustards in the fog, kingfishers on the Barron River, and Black Kites over Pickford Road.
Sunday 28 June 2026
A wet cruise-ship day chasing mammals: Platypus, Red-legged Pademelon, Green Ringtail Possum and Spectacled Flying Fox, finishing on the Cairns Esplanade.
Monday 1 June 2026
With the wet season behind us, we spent a full winter's day working the eucalypt woodland west of the Wet Tropics, from Wondecla and Springvale across to the crater lakes and the dry country around Mareeba.
Monday 25 May 2026
Our inaugural day tour: 90 species, three bowerbirds before noon, a Platypus and Little Kingfisher simultaneously at Petersen Creek.