We had an invitation for lunch with our Ballarat connection, so decided to leave a little earlier, spend a few minutes around the Ballarat Lake, while we had the opportunity.
As the day would have it, it was porridge skies, but sometimes, as I’ve discovered lately those softer melded light conditions are really good for detail of bird feathers.
Mind, I’m partial to a run of sunshine too. 🙂
As they say,—have you ever wondered who ‘they’ are?—obviously not ‘us’,—anyway as ‘they’ say, what we found were the ‘usual suspects’
The highlight of the hour or so was several Great Crested Grebes. And we did spend quite a bit of time photographing insane Corellas as they flew about in large, super-noisy flocks. I’ve never been sure as to what puts them into a frenzy, but once started its self-multiplying and they just keep going until everyone runs out of energy.
So here in no particular order.
Enjoy.
Birds as Poetry —— Just because I WANDER doesn't mean I'm LOST 
The Lake is always a fabulous place for a wander, David!
Like you, I would love to see the GC Grebes doing the ‘courting dance’!
I spent three years living on Ripon St. North, two blocks from the lake while at Uni. (CAE as it was then) and probably didn’t appreciate the lake as I would now!
A splendid series of images!
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Hello Dave,
Yes I think there is a lot of things from my youth that I’d have like to explore on a second pass around. Still in between some other enjoyable times did happen.
Interesting about CAE. I’m a great believer in the CAE experience. Real teachers with real work experience.Finishing students to be work ready, not just having a piece of paper and the thought they would be the boss by the end of the first week.
My photography certificate is from CAE. I still remember the first set of prints I submitted and the scathing remarks of the instructor. He also gave me a print as an example. (It was printed on AGFA Brovira paper) Beautiful rich blacks that went on forever, crystalline whites that glowed and translucent mid-tone Greys with rippling details.
I said, foolishly, “I will never sell a print that is not as good as this one.” Oh well, it was a great thought for a moment.
LIfe turns and I was an instructor for CAE in the city and Box Hill for a number of semesters.
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A lovely lakeside collection David. The Great Crestids are always exciting to find, especially if they have young catching a ride on the back of dad. We have not visited our fav Great Crested spot for a while since weather has been so bad. We are back to winter today with one quite sick wife with RSV.
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G’day Ashley, thanks for the thoughts. I still live in hope of seeing the Grebes dance.
So sad to learn of the RSV infection. We have several of our village that have been struck down and it’s been quite the recovery period for some.
The weather has been topsy-turvy here for so long. And the death of birds is becoming very noticeable.
Interestingly we’ve had 16 Great Crested Grebes turn up at the local boat harbout. Wonder if its because of the bushfires in so many areas and they have moved on.
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