Templestowe and Banyule!

I had a tip off!

Yarra River wandering - striated pardalote, common bronzewing, platypus(!!), owlet-nightjar

You can only imagine how much we're all enjoying it here

The whole bazball schtick about playing entertaining cricket being thrillingly illustrated here by endless legside bouncers

England should make 600 on this wicket

Every year I get incredibly stressed and every year I get over the line - 451 calendars sold, $10820 donated, thanks for playing everyone!!!!

Unbelievable that beau webster keeps missing out for cam green

Seems crazy that the NYT games wrapped doesn't give me any statistics for the mini, the main reason I have the NYT games app

Told people from run club that I went to the Big Day Out before everyone had mobile phones and you could see them struggling to make sense of it all

Unfathomable news tonight, look after each other everyone

Just two good boys

Didn't find the owlet nightjar at Banyule, but it's always good for a stroll

Been going to my run club for a couple of years and I've met so many of my favourite people

A young woman holding a 2026 calendar featuring an upside down musk lorikeet. The woman is grinning hugely

Gang! I've still got approx 10 bird calendars left to sell, raising money for good causes as always and prices marked down to $25! You too could be this happy next year!!!

birdmichaelbirdcalendars.bigcartel.com

I wish the government would ban me from social media

flew out of where

An image of a twitter notification of Charlize Theron following me

Was trying to drag myself away from Twitter, but I guess I've gotta stay now

Nock Loose is easily the most madcap thing I read all year

A grid of book covers, from left to right, top to bottom: The Rot by Evelyn Ararluen, Desire Paths by Megan Clement, Nightingale by Laura Elvery, Catching the Light by Joana Horton, Cannon by Lee Lai, Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough, Human/Nature by Jane Rawson, Little World by Josephine Rowe, The Slip by Miriam Webster

While I'm posting, these were my favourite Australian books of the year - something for everyone (poetry, non-fiction, madcap novels, capital L Literature, graphic novels, short stories etc etc)

please!!!

a side on tawny frogmouth, making eye contact with the camera

a contrasting pose, still with one big eye on the photographer

a tiny fluffy baby frogmouth peaking out between two branches

A slightly older bub, sitting up and observing the world

Every few months the racism and misogyny on twitter drives me back over here, maybe I can make it stick this time? It's been a big tawny season since I last posted!

An endemic bird no less!!

Spot on!

Ohhh I love this!!!

I "made" @birdmichael.bsky.social come to the Western Treatment Plant with me on a workday to look for brolgas and orange-bellied parrots so I could write this article

I think I saw that at KBS and that's what I'm thinking of. Also your modelling paper on JoPH? Although maybe that was all polarisation I can't remember

Ha, I am just citing this lifespan one in a revision, very timely plug

How do we square this with all the survey data showing big jumps in drinking since covid that have not subsequently dropped off?

(I'm back on bluesky just to ask you this, because it didn't feel worth an email)

Satin Bowerbird!