A private field journal

The birds you keep noticing

Australian suburban and coastal species, drawn as plates and kept as neighbours. Name the magpie on the fence. Log the tide-line hour. Read the yard as a living folio.

Eastern Rosella

Plate of the day

Eastern Rosella

Painted Warden of the Fence-line

Peninsula neighbours

Begin with these

All plates

Name a neighbour

The magpie with the pale bill tip. The kookaburra who owns the clothesline. Keep individuals, not only species.

Add a bird

Field notes

Attract without spoiling

Water, thicket, and the ethics of a kind yard — written for Peninsula streets and coastal hours.

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