Jim Smart's feathered friends
Submitted by Chickowee on 07 Jul 2014.
On the wall is a water painting of a princess parrot – “very rare” – next to a picture of some fairy wrens.
Spread out on the floor are a dozen A3 sized photographs of birds taken from bushland around Kurri, that will be presented at the next meeting of the Hunter Bird Observer Club.
The book shelves sag under the weight. No, there’s no sign of John Grisham or Ken Follett or Tim Winton here, but reference books of birds – mostly Australian bird books, but sprinkled in among them are books on birds from New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, India and England.
Welcome to the East Maitland home of Jim Smart, retired science teacher and, as you’ve probably worked out already, bird lover.
