sandeyeMy Sunday Ramble
February 6th 2008 16:19
Although unable to take any pictures due to 'rain-stop-camera' syndrome, I encountered several interesting birds on my 5 hours of walking that took me along the coast and back. Starting off at the local hour of 6-20am, the clouds ominous and rolling fast above me, I still took my camera along, just in case…
By the time I had reached Stuart Park, my shoes were sodden. There simply was no way to cross into the park other than walking through a two-inch puddle or walking ten minutes out of my way. Once through the park, it began to rain heavily. I was as soaked as my shoes as I walked past Puckey's Estate. Onto the coastal track, the birds were everywhere but my camera was not coming out in THAT downpour!
The first I heard was the magpie's calls toning in with the seagull shrieks at the baseball fields. Not 100m further, and fairy-wrens flitted past me as I strode along the path - squishing in my soggy socks. There were plovers, swallows and fairy-wrens in abundance on this stretch. Though all were fast-moving and would have been difficult to capture by camera, anyway.
A little further along, a flock of around 200 gulls flew overhead, rather noisily, from the baseball park behind me down onto the sands of the beach in front. Once again, a photo of gray spots might not be worth risking my camera for - it being more likely to have captured raindrops than seagulls!
Passing the trailer park, another bunch of wrens was encountered. Other than a few myna birds, nothing else appeared on my northwards leg of the journey until I passed by a park in Corrimal. I heard the distinctive warbling of magpies and sure enough, there were a couple foraging in the sticks and leaves of the tree-studded parkland.
After traipsing about waiting for places to open, placing a newspaper advertisement - which was the main purpose of my excursion and why I did not await more favorable weather - and purchasing a soda, I set off back home. On the return trip, I once again encountered the pair of 'pies in the park, several fairy-wrens, gulls, swallows, myna birds, and plovers. Once again, it was raining, however! My camera did not even come out of my satchel! I fit had not been storming, deluging, piddling, drizzling, and dripping, I would also have taken photographs of a few rabbits I spotted along the route, munching the grass and seemingly uncaring of my passing them by. Me and my squelching shoes arrived back home at around 11-30am to find a sodden Smokey looking for seeds and my son watching the Super Bowl.
By the time I had reached Stuart Park, my shoes were sodden. There simply was no way to cross into the park other than walking through a two-inch puddle or walking ten minutes out of my way. Once through the park, it began to rain heavily. I was as soaked as my shoes as I walked past Puckey's Estate. Onto the coastal track, the birds were everywhere but my camera was not coming out in THAT downpour!
The first I heard was the magpie's calls toning in with the seagull shrieks at the baseball fields. Not 100m further, and fairy-wrens flitted past me as I strode along the path - squishing in my soggy socks. There were plovers, swallows and fairy-wrens in abundance on this stretch. Though all were fast-moving and would have been difficult to capture by camera, anyway.
A little further along, a flock of around 200 gulls flew overhead, rather noisily, from the baseball park behind me down onto the sands of the beach in front. Once again, a photo of gray spots might not be worth risking my camera for - it being more likely to have captured raindrops than seagulls!
Passing the trailer park, another bunch of wrens was encountered. Other than a few myna birds, nothing else appeared on my northwards leg of the journey until I passed by a park in Corrimal. I heard the distinctive warbling of magpies and sure enough, there were a couple foraging in the sticks and leaves of the tree-studded parkland.
After traipsing about waiting for places to open, placing a newspaper advertisement - which was the main purpose of my excursion and why I did not await more favorable weather - and purchasing a soda, I set off back home. On the return trip, I once again encountered the pair of 'pies in the park, several fairy-wrens, gulls, swallows, myna birds, and plovers. Once again, it was raining, however! My camera did not even come out of my satchel! I fit had not been storming, deluging, piddling, drizzling, and dripping, I would also have taken photographs of a few rabbits I spotted along the route, munching the grass and seemingly uncaring of my passing them by. Me and my squelching shoes arrived back home at around 11-30am to find a sodden Smokey looking for seeds and my son watching the Super Bowl.
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