sandeyeCorrimal, Winter 2008
July 10th 2008 16:43
The Sunday before last I took a hike to Corrimal, along the coastal track from Wollongong City. At first, I thought that I might be photo-less, for there were no fairy-wrens in sight along the Wollongong-Fairy Meadow stretch. A flock of airborne gulls is hardly worth removing the camera from the wrapper for, and the distant magpie was just a little too far to even warrant an attempt with a zoom.
It was not until I approached Towradgi that I saw a bird worth capturing on camera. Alas, it was still too distant to get a perfect shot. My attention was taken upward, to the aerial on top the surf-saving club roof in Towradgi. There was a raven sticking its beak into a large coffee container perched upon the aerial. I had no idea that ravens liked coffee enough to beakfully carry a used paper-mug up onto a roof and greedily gulp the remains! Maybe it was the milk, the sugar, the caffeine, or a miscellaneous substance someone had inserted. Whatever it was, this raven was intent on getting a beakful.
SNAP! But alas, the raven dropped its drink mere seconds before I caught it. I merely had a photo of a raven at a distance, instead of a coffee addict...
The only fairy-wren in sight shot in front of me too speedily to think 'camera', let alone grab it.
It was a very cold day, so I did not take my camera out to snap the galahs that observed me munch my ham, cheese and tomato panini - with exceedingly wishful sounds issuing from their beaks and many a fixed stare upon me, hoping for some crumbs.
I was surrounded by a flock of darting swallows on my return trip, but they were too quick for me, and the camera did not catch more than a blur. In fact, my only other shot was of a plover in the field near Fairy Meadow Surf Club. Here he is...
It was not until I approached Towradgi that I saw a bird worth capturing on camera. Alas, it was still too distant to get a perfect shot. My attention was taken upward, to the aerial on top the surf-saving club roof in Towradgi. There was a raven sticking its beak into a large coffee container perched upon the aerial. I had no idea that ravens liked coffee enough to beakfully carry a used paper-mug up onto a roof and greedily gulp the remains! Maybe it was the milk, the sugar, the caffeine, or a miscellaneous substance someone had inserted. Whatever it was, this raven was intent on getting a beakful.
SNAP! But alas, the raven dropped its drink mere seconds before I caught it. I merely had a photo of a raven at a distance, instead of a coffee addict...
The only fairy-wren in sight shot in front of me too speedily to think 'camera', let alone grab it.
It was a very cold day, so I did not take my camera out to snap the galahs that observed me munch my ham, cheese and tomato panini - with exceedingly wishful sounds issuing from their beaks and many a fixed stare upon me, hoping for some crumbs.
I was surrounded by a flock of darting swallows on my return trip, but they were too quick for me, and the camera did not catch more than a blur. In fact, my only other shot was of a plover in the field near Fairy Meadow Surf Club. Here he is...
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