Goodbye to Rainbirds and Stormbirds: Cuckoos Fly North for Winter

A change in season means different sounds in the garden

“File:Pacific Koel — Long Reef.jpg” by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [Image cropped]

Although the Coral Sea cyclone season ends officially on 30 April, I am going to make the call right now. Goodbye, swirly things. Hello, dry season.

I live in the Wet Tropics region of Far North Queensland where ‘dry’ means ‘not as soggy as it is for the rest of the year’…