Dan and Mick have been talking about the importance of TSR’s for Australian bird conservation – today we got the opportunity to visit one. TSR or ‘travelling stock reserves’ are designated parcels of public land – used in the past to move stock across the countryside. Nowadays they provided important wildlife corridors and places of sanctuary for nature – not unlike Surveyors Allotments in Britain, but on a much larger scale. This morning we visited the TSR at Torryburn – a large tract of native woodland with an abundance of birds. By the end of our birding session we’d added a couple of dozen birds to the trip list, which now stands at 205.