VIDEO:  WIND STORM

VIDEO: WIND STORM

60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA REPORTS We thought a story about the pros and cons of windmills, ‘wind power’ would be pretty harmless. Not on your life. Even before we started filming, the industry was mobilising. A message went out from the Australian Wind Energy...
RING-TAILED POSSUMS

RING-TAILED POSSUMS

RING-TAILED POSSUMS During our Spring woodland festival, we cannot forget the ring-tailed possums which are quite common and can raise one or two young every season. They are about the size of a cat, and live exclusively in trees where they make a nest or drey to...
NSW SPRING WOODLANDS FLORA

NSW SPRING WOODLANDS FLORA

SPRING IN THE NSW WOODLANDS BRINGS FLOWERS Flowers cover the ground and bushes as the sun returns and the woodlands flourish. The most obvious display is the white tea tree (shown above) covered with flowers — it is absolutely exquisite. Many bush flowers are...
SPRING IN THE NSW WOODLANDS

SPRING IN THE NSW WOODLANDS

SPRING IN THE WOODLANDS OF NSW October is the middle month of Spring and the Woodlands are burgeoning with life. All the birds are nesting, parrots, galahs and cockatoos in hollows, weebills, finches, thornbills and blue wrens are making their grassy homes in the...