After two wet years, you can jump in a channel on Garry and Leanne Hall’s property on the edge of the Macquarie Marshes in northwestern New South Wales and quickly find yourself surrounded by wildlife.
Magpie geese, spoonbills, whistling kites, swamp harriers: the list ticked off by visiting bird enthusiasts has been extensive in the past season. The Hall’s cattle graze on the marshes, accompanied by the egrets, which pick the insects off their backs as they move through the long grass.
