What a character!
May 25, 2021
Category: Australia
Burning
May 24, 2021
Rain is forecast tomorrow. The clouds are building up in the sky. You can feel it in the air. At last! Our neighbours and ourselves have been scurrying about, finishing the last of the autumn tasks, before the rain and therefore lack of access due to wet paddocks.
We’ve been burning cutting some wood for winter and burning the rubbishy sticks left over.
So it inspired me to play around with an abstract photo, that reflected the colours of my day. Here it is. The last of the autumn blooms, in burning colours.
Also for Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge
Keep your head down
May 24, 2021
It was chilly. The pelicans tucked their heads away and shivered!
Here are two headless ones.
Did I mention it was also windy. The pelicans were gathered in this corner of the swamp. Perhaps it was marginally warmer. Having been on a dairy farm, I noticed that cows always turn their backs to the wind. Apparently horses face the wind. There are lots of ideas about wht this is so. I noticed in this picture the pelicans all faced the same way, well all except one. He hadn’t got the memo. Or maybe he was keeping lookout. When my guinea fowl are eating there always seems to be one, not eating, keeping a lookout for predators.
I had something in common with this little guy. We were both crouched over to stay warmer.
The pelicans are coming
May 23, 2021
Location: Kow Swamp, Victoria, Australia. Kow Swamp is a permanent body of water. It’s used for irrigation.
I spent a very chilly morning photographing these pelicans. The more I watched them the more fascinated I became. Needless to say, I have lots of photos to add this week.
Soaring Overhead
May 20, 2021
It was a very cold and blustery day. I went off driving and spent some time at Kow Swamp, photographing pelicans. While I was there, shivering, I noticed this bird circling overhead. It was a dull day and I was disappointed in the colours, but I haven’t caught many photos of raptors in flight.
Happy anniversary
May 19, 2021
It’s my wedding anniversary so I really have to put up some flowers.
More images of my Darter friend
May 18, 2021
Yesterday I posted some pics of the Darter. Here are a few more.
weird one
May 17, 2021
An old Darter friend
May 17, 2021
Thiis bird has stayed around since birth. Meet his family here. Lots of his family have disappeared, but he keeps sitting out front. posing for photographs. I’ve caught him in many new unusual poses. look at his amazing feather patterns.
Asparagus in Autumn
May 16, 2021
I can’t wait for the spring rains that bring up wonderful asparagus spears for the family to enjoy. We are lucky because , for whatever reason, it grows wild along the track that is our road, and we have some secret spots that we carefully tend over winter.
Right now you can see the tell tale red seed /berries that reveal the location of asparagus ferns. They’re rather beautiful just as ferns. You can see other images of the asparagus plants here.
Can’t wait for springtime.
AT PATHO 