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September 15th 2008 16:17
I have had a little time spare due to re-organizing my week last week. This has enabled me to spend some time looking out the windows into the back yard. Sometimes, I have had my camera in hand, and I should have some photos to share later this week, when I take them out of the camera and put them onto the PC.
Amongst our recent guests has been the white-faced heron. He was seen casually wandering along the edge of the properly-mowed lawn, dipping his delighted beak into the long 'oops-no time-to-fix-it-yet' grass at the sides.
I was just about to shoot outside and grab in my laundry before the ominous dark-gray clouds crawled over the house and rained on it, when I spotted a wagtail sitting on the hoist. I had to wait a few minutes until it had finished wagging its tail and nibbling a few insects which had somehow found their way onto either my hoist or almost-dry washing. I did not want to disturb it.
The magpie who had been visiting a few times for cheese, has babies! I can tell as the past 2-3 days it has snatched the cheese offering from my hand and broken it into tiny pieces on the garden path, before flying off with a beakful of bits. Usually, it gobbles it down and then flies away - so it obviously has young to feed.
We have also had a black-faced cuckoo-shrike visit us again. I heard it singing on the poinsettia tree. I opened the door to toss out some cheese for it to catch mid-air, but it flew away. I guess it was not our tame bird from previous years.
Additionally, the kookaburras have been cackling their laughter out to entertain the sleeping neighbors and well-awake me at dawn recently. I have not seen them in the yard again yet, but heard them in the park across the street most mornings this past week.
Amongst our recent guests has been the white-faced heron. He was seen casually wandering along the edge of the properly-mowed lawn, dipping his delighted beak into the long 'oops-no time-to-fix-it-yet' grass at the sides.
I was just about to shoot outside and grab in my laundry before the ominous dark-gray clouds crawled over the house and rained on it, when I spotted a wagtail sitting on the hoist. I had to wait a few minutes until it had finished wagging its tail and nibbling a few insects which had somehow found their way onto either my hoist or almost-dry washing. I did not want to disturb it.
The magpie who had been visiting a few times for cheese, has babies! I can tell as the past 2-3 days it has snatched the cheese offering from my hand and broken it into tiny pieces on the garden path, before flying off with a beakful of bits. Usually, it gobbles it down and then flies away - so it obviously has young to feed.
We have also had a black-faced cuckoo-shrike visit us again. I heard it singing on the poinsettia tree. I opened the door to toss out some cheese for it to catch mid-air, but it flew away. I guess it was not our tame bird from previous years.
Additionally, the kookaburras have been cackling their laughter out to entertain the sleeping neighbors and well-awake me at dawn recently. I have not seen them in the yard again yet, but heard them in the park across the street most mornings this past week.
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