Ballara

The authors (Michael and Sarah) live on a property (called Ballara) in south-east Australia, that includes a 10ha bird study site, which is the subject of the book. The property was purchased by Sarah's father Stephen in 1973 (Chapter 1). Stephen did a 10-year study of the bird community on the 10ha site between 1975 and 1984, and left the property in 1998 (Chapter 5). Upon Michael's retirement in 2004, he and Sarah moved to the property and continued the study for another nine years (Chapter 6)