December 12, 2015: Kingfisher Park, Australia — Del and I birded with John and Peta Nott at Rose Gums this morning for a couple of hours. Rose Gums is a “wilderness resort” which John and Peta have built up over the past few years, in a wooded area adjoining a large national park, and it’s a great birding spot. At first light, John walked us to an area where he has seen Blue-faced Parrotfinches recently, and, after some effort, Del managed to spot the bird perched in a low shrub. Then we retired to the Notts’ back deck for the morning feeding, an event that takes place each day at 8 a.m. “We didn’t have any parrots here until Cyclone Larry hit in 2006,” said Peta. “Larry was scary. The forest around our place was so devastated, it looked like it had burned. The birds which survived the cyclone were dazed afterward, some of them so much that you could walk over and pick them up. To help them out, we put a big table of fruit and other foods on our deck and it...