Birds of the Border Ranges — The Fairymount Vintage Bird Collection

There is a particular kind of stillness that settles over the Border Ranges in the early morning. The mist clings to the ridgelines, the tree ferns drip quietly, and then, if you are patient, the birds begin to sing.

I live in a 100-year-old cottage in Kyogle, the gateway to the Border Ranges of Northern NSW. It sits at the edge of one of the most biodiverse regions in Australia, ancient rainforest country, part of the Gondwana World Heritage Area and the birds here are extraordinary. Not just in number, but in character. Each one feels like a small, living painting.

The closest mountain to my cottage is Fairymount. It is the mountain that inspired everything — the name of my collections, the world I have been quietly building through my art. When I look toward it, I think of old magic, deep forest, and the kind of beauty that doesn't announce itself.

It was this feeling — of encountering something rare and beautiful in an ordinary moment — that inspired the Fairymount Vintage Bird Collection.

A Field Guide for Dreamers

The collection is rendered in the tradition of the great 19th-century naturalist illustrators, the kind of patient, reverent artwork you find in old field guides, where every feather is observed with care and every bird is placed in its habitat with intention. Think John Gould, think Audubon, think the quiet wonder of someone who has spent a long time watching.

Each print features a bird I have personally spotted in and around the Border Ranges, birds that are part of the living world of this remarkable landscape.

Meet the Birds

The collection includes ten species, each rendered as a vintage-style digital art print:

• Sacred Kingfisher — a jewel of teal and gold, watching from a mossy branch above a quiet creek
• Blue-faced Honeyeater — bold cobalt mask, a frequent and striking visitor to the eucalypt canopy
• Blue Wren — that impossible flash of blue in the undergrowth, one of Australia's most beloved birds
• Bowerbird — an architect of the forest floor, speckled and watchful
• Regent Bowerbird — jet black with a crown of gold; one of the most spectacular birds in Australia
• Brown Cuckoo-Dove — soft and unhurried, moving through the canopy with quiet grace
• Lewin's Honeyeater — a voice of the rainforest, filling the gullies with its distinctive call
• Wonga Pigeon — large, stately, walking the forest floor with quiet authority
• White-headed Pigeon — elegant and distinctive, its snow-white head unmistakable in the fruiting trees
• Scaly-breasted Lorikeet — a burst of vivid green in the flowering eucalypts, noisy and joyful

What's Included

Each print is available as a digital download with three high-resolution 300 DPI files: A3, Professional PDF, and Square format — so you can print at home, through a professional print service, or display digitally. Images may vary slightly across dimensions.

Personal Use Only.

A Note on the Artwork

This collection was created and curated by Enchanted Celtic using AI tools, in the spirit of the vintage naturalist tradition. Each piece is designed to honour the real birds of this landscape, creatures I have watched, listened to, and love.

The Border Ranges are worth celebrating. These prints are my small way of doing that.

— Enchanted Celtic