Faust

Wildlife photographers in Melbourne are celebrating the arrival of tawny frogmouth chicks, sharing photos of the fluffy young birds perched with their parents. The sightings have drawn warm responses from Australian birdwatching communities, with people swapping locations and tips on spotting the famously well-camouflaged species, whose babies typically appear in spring.

A Melbourne wildlife photographer has shared a striking image of a musk lorikeet, an Australian honeyeater-like parrot known for its bright green plumage and red face. The caption makes a playful pun on the bird's name, drawing likes and warm responses from the birdwatching and nature photography community, with tags spanning Australian birds and wildlife photography.

A concert programme pairing three Robert Schumann works is drawing attention among classical music listeners: the overture to his opera Genoveva, the Violin Concerto in D minor, and the Second Symphony. Violinist Isabelle Faust performs the concerto with the Freiburger Barockorchester under conductor Sir Simon Rattle, a lineup combining period instruments with one of the world's leading conductors.

German singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann has once again made explicitly clear that criticism of Israel is not antisemitism, drawing on a comparison with the lemurs in the second part of Goethe's Faust. Commenters online praised the literary aptness of the argument from Biermann, himself a celebrated poet, amid ongoing heated debate in Germany over where legitimate criticism of Israel ends and antisemitism begins.

Bird photography enthusiasts are sharing wildlife images with a weekend greeting, with one photographer in Melbourne posting Australian bird pictures tagged for bird-watching and wildlife communities. The exchange highlights an active community of Australian bird photographers sharing their work, with tags pointing to birdwatching and photography groups across Australia and Melbourne.