Draw some little legs on a wooden handled cobbler’s awl (even with my lack of skill) and you would have something resembling an Eastern Spinebill. In the old days they were often referred to as Cobbler’s Awl Birds, and I’m sure that beak could pierce boot
Read more →IN THE BEGINNING – ERNIE APPLE TREE SENIOR In 1953 my parents moved to the Tasmanian farm I grew up on. It was four miles from the coastal town of Ulverstone In the back garden (out on sight in the photo) was an old apple tree. Unfortunately
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