This ongoing project is to put together a collection of photographs from my birding "trips" starting August 2010.





So, see you in the bush or on the beach :-)





Bird conservation, research and information

For more information about Australian birds go to Birdlife Australia and, if you are interested in bird photography, consider joining the BirdLife Australia Photography Group.



A note on the title of this blog

A Passion for Birds: Fifty Years of Photographing Wildlife More than thirty years ago, my then soon to be (and still my) darling wife gave me a copy of Eric Hosking's autobiographical book:

It was reading this book that cemented my dual "passion" for birds and photography so this blog is a humble tribute to Eric's life and work and Joanne's inspiration to introduce it to me.





On ethics

I abide by the BirdLife Photography Ethical Birding Guidelines for bird watching and photography and encourage others to do the same...PLEASE!









This continues to grow as I find the time to visit new places and some old friends. I'll add at least one photograph from every day in the field and try to add new species when possible.I live on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia--a great place for birds--so you'll see a lot of sites around the Bellarine and Geelong region (I've now started a Birds of the Bellarine Peninsula page on this blog as my bird list for the region) but I will include locations from wider afield and interstate if work, family and other commitments allow me to travel more widely. I'll occasionally have the chance for some bird photography overseas so will add entries here for those too but the bird list will only be for photographs in Australia.