Field notes
Attracting & practice
Quiet counsel for a Peninsula yard and a coastal hour — ethics first, then the thicket, then the watching.
- Ethics
The ethics of a kind yard
How to be a neighbour to birds without turning them into dependents, or yourself into a nuisance.
- Attracting
Living with magpies — and ravens
How to be recognised by a family of sentinels without starting a feud in spring.
- Attracting
Water first, seed second
A Peninsula garden becomes a bird place the day the water is reliable.
- Field practice
Reading the swooping season
A short field note on magpie nesting, warning signs, and how to keep walking the same street.
- Identification
Corvid watch: magpie, raven, currawong
Three black-and-white thinkers of the south-east, and how not to confuse them at fifty metres.
- Field practice
A coastal hour
What to do with sixty minutes on a Peninsula beach if you want more than a walk.
- Field practice
Naming the ones you recognise
A Pokédex is a list of kinds. A codex, if it is honest, is also a list of neighbours.
- Attracting
Plantings that work on the Peninsula
A short list of local plants that turn a garden into habitat, rather than a vase.
- Field practice
How to keep this journal
A few habits that turn a string of sightings into a record you will still want to read.
- Field practice
Quiet watching
The oldest field skill, and the one the phone is worst at.