by Peter Rowland | Wednesday, July 1, 2015 | Birds, My (Little) Big Year
June marks the half way point in my (Little) Big Year. At the end of May I was still a whopping 231 species short of my primary target of 400 Australian bird species for the 2015 calendar year, and 42 short of my secondary target of 50 new Australian bird species for...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, May 1, 2015 | Birds, Family, Garden, My (Little) Big Year, New South Wales, Wetlands
My first attempt at a (Little) Big Year has hit the skids a little. My goal was 400 Australian bird species for the year but, as of the end of March, I had seen only 129. My other goal was to see 50 new Australian bird species for my life list, and I had only seen 8....
by Peter Rowland | Thursday, January 1, 2015 | Australia, Big Year, Birds, My (Little) Big Year
After watching the movie The Big Year starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, I (Peter) have decreed that 2015 will be my first attempt at a Big Year. For those of you who are unaware what a Big Year is, it is an American tradition that is rumoured to have...
