We always consider the summer months the best for birdwatching in Daintree, with the breeding migrants coming through from New Guinea plus having the rain adding to to the lagoons and river systems, encouraging water birds, crakes, bushhens etc. However, …Continue Reading
Winter magic in Daintree
June 30th, 2016
Daintree’s ‘dry wet’ and ‘wet dry’
May 23rd, 2016
Who says there is no climate change?? A normal 1st quarter for Daintree will deliver between 1500 and 2500mm of rain - this year we only received 870mm in the first three months of the year. It was unseasonally hot …Continue Reading
To Colombia and home again
April 13th, 2016
Back home again after a month of travelling and birdwatching in Colombia. What an amazing place - almost 2000 bird species, more than any other country in the world and, because of the geography,an amazing degree of endemism. There are …Continue Reading
Holiday time
February 27th, 2016
Posting from sunny Sydney as we wait for a flight to Santiago, then Lima and finally Bogota - a long day ahead. We have a month in Colombia attending the Colombian Birdfair, doing a tour of the Santa Marta region …Continue Reading
2016 - a year of change
February 5th, 2016
What a month this has been for Red Mill House. Christmas saw us at Lake Eacham in the Atherton Tablelands, just enjoying ourselves in one of our favourite places in the world, when suddenly a very attractive block of land …Continue Reading
