Wednesday, April 4

walkies, birds and trees

Nine mile (15km) walk yesterday, around yet another stretch of foreshore.

Three birds that live in different ways. A magnificent black thing with a flesh-tearing beak.




A long-beaked urban scavenger, probably originally designed for wading through molluscs and eating  them.



And the one that looks like a burnt-out Concorde is, I believe, a new caledonian shag.




Good skies. Splendid dead tree.










Weird tall solitary tree.




The cellmate standing beside a life-form akin to the lesser young Albert, originally spotted in 1970.


4 comments:

  1. That is a darn good walk.

    Great pics, I really like the dead tree.

    Interesting birds, my husband has 3 or 4 bird books and we do a lot of stopping to look at them. I don't feel a need to identify them, just look at them.

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  2. I say!

    You could make a few bats out of the weird tall solitary tree.

    MM III

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  3. Not another beautiful bloody day in yon desert!! Cloudless skies are so boring!!! Hotboy p.s. Great photies though!

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  4. Nanners. I agree with you, naming species is a closed activity, compared with the openness of just wondering at them.

    Mingers. Will they ever invent a plastic bat?

    Hotters, I knew you'd enjoy the tree porn.

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