This weather is unbelievable! We have just had the driest March with day after day of clear blue skies and now the nights are getting much cooler - down to 16 C last night whereas a week ago the minimum was 24 C. But this 'wet tropics' country needs lots of rain and dries out very fast during dry spells - and already we are having to run the garden sprinklers every day which is unheard-of for this time of year. But of course to our visitors this weather is utterly magical!
Lots of birds around now - Black Bitterns are down by the dam, Rainbow Bee-Eaters, Fig-birds (pictured here). Uh oh - I've just seen a pair of Yellow-spotted Honeyeaters sitting on my circular peg basket hanging on the clothes-line - a couple of years they succeeded in building their nest snugly on top of the pegs - had to go and buy some more pegs so as not to disturb them!
