One of my favorite birds on our farm is the inquisitive and playful Grey Fantail.
I’ve got to admit somewhere deep inside me there is some sort of twitcher hiding.
(A twitcher is a type of birder who seeks to add as many species as possible to their life list, often without detailed or long-term observation of individual birds.)
I don’t travel vast distances looking to add birds to my life list, my twitching bent is more localised, recording the birds that visit our farm really fascinates me.
This week is the Aussie Backyard Bird Count ran by Birdlife Australia. So grab your bird book, download the app, whatever is your thing, and get out there and get counting.
Birds are a critical part of our biodiversity if we don’t know what is out there how can we know what to look after?
cows around Australia, have been on the fermented food bandwagon for years. At this time of the year as our pasture dries off and growth slows we often supplement their diet with silage. Silage is fermented pasture harvested in the spring when we have excess pasture growth, the spring pasture is fermented in large stacks so our cows can have a taste of lush spring grass whenever we don’t have green grass on hand.
The cows seem to love tucking into their on-trend’ fermented diet.
Who knows whats next? The girls might be getting around wearing yoga pants sipping on kombucha.
We’re now half way through winter and our pastures are booming along.The pasture cover on the farm is just where I’d like to see it at this time of year. Yes, we have had some cold days and some wild weather but hey if you farm in South Gippsland you have to expect that.
The motivation to get back on the horse, blow the dust off MontroseDairy.com & start blogging again came from a recent trip to Melbourne. I go to Melbourne often for meetings and usually enjoy the contrast of the city, to life on the farm. This visit was different, it was a weekend off in the big smoke, a few nice meals and a slower pace to my normal city visits.
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