David Jenkins

Flame Robin, male. Point Cook

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015Posted in Flame Robin, Point CookTagged Flame Robin, Point Cook2 Comments

Starting to build up a bit of a theme for April blogs. Here is a very relaxed male that came over to see what I was doing.

Flame Robin, male. Wintering over at Eynesbury

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015Posted in Eynesbury, Flame RobinTagged Eynesbury, Flame Robin2 Comments

Werribee Wag Tales April 2015

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015Posted in Werribee Wag Tales, Werribee WagtailsTagged Birdlife Werribee, Werribee Wagtails, Western Treatment Plant2 Comments

Formerly called Werribee Wagtails, Birdlife Werribee had a day at the Western Treatment Plant. Stories about that event and a few others are available in the Werribee Wag Tales Newsletter for download here, or from the Wagtails tab on the front page.

WER Wag Tales April 2015

The well travelled Tern

April 20, 2015April 23, 2015Posted in White-winged TernTagged White-winged TernLeave a comment

Red-capped Plover: In high key

April 19, 2015April 23, 2015Posted in Red-capped Plover2 Comments

I love high-key. Brings out the best in portraits.

Red-capped Plover, female. Several of these working on the mudflats on the most overcast of days. — Red-capped Plover, juvenile. Several of these working on the mudflats on the most overcast of days.

Dust Dancing

April 19, 2015April 23, 2015Posted in Brolga, Western Treatment PlantTagged Brolga, Western Treatment Plant7 Comments

Lake Louise

April 19, 2015Posted in Uncategorized2 Comments

Here is a site from my mate Rob Parker.
Worth checking out.

My Random Photo Site

Several years ago, we did our first cruise from Alaska to Vancouver, followed by a Rocky Mountaineer trip to Jasper, then on to Calgary. On the way we spent a day at Lake Louise – one of the most relaxing places I’ve ever been to.

I’m puzzled by the size of this image on this page. It’s an 1800×1200 image, and I put it into this post in the same way as I’ve done with other images; I don’t (yet) understand why it’s displaying so small on this page.

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Willie Wagtail

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015Posted in Western Treatment Plant, Willie WagtailTagged Western Treatment Plant, Willie Wagtail4 Comments

DWJ_4921 - Version 2 — Not sure if you know. But if you click on the image it will go to a larger size Click a second time and it will go to full size. Worth it to see the priceless expression here Enjoy

This is Gate Willie.

It has a territory by the main gate at Paradise Road entrance at Western Treatment Plant.
His (?) job in the world is to give lectures to all those who would dare to open the gate and enter the Paradise Road area.
and a good job he does too.

Site Disclaimer

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015Posted in Uncategorized6 Comments

I’ve really been away from the day to day running of WordPress sites. Just assumed everything stayed the same.

But,

Its come to my attention that WordPress now ‘occasionally‘ (euphemism I suspect for consistently and annoyingly) insert Advertisements into my website when you are viewing it.

So the inference is either:

1. I am making some financial gain from ads on the site.

2. I’m a cheapskate and I won’t pay WordPress for the ‘Pro’ account that doesn’t use Ads.

So the facts.

I don’t make any financial gain from this site. Never. Didn’t start it with that intention and don’t intend to start. The site is not about me, or my photography, but rather about the birds and they receive no financial gain from the site at all.

I pay WordPress to host my http://www.birdsaspoetry.com site name. They link it using all sorts of clever computer skills, (probably devised by some 11 year old kid in his bedroom at 3:00am in the morning), and I pay them a small fee per year for that privilege. But, it is apparently not enough to prevent the ads.

As they want about $90. a year for the no ads site, I guess in the end I’ll have to put up the cash, but at the moment, if you are assailed by ads, then just click past them. Sorry.

I am mortified that WordPress has taken this approach. Still, nothing for nothing in this world. Just ask the Curlew Sandpipers trying to migrate through farmlands and housing estates in China where once they could stop over for a food topup in the mangroves. Sad.

Hope you’re not put off by the ads.

Thanks for looking

Wandering with Werribee Wagtails at Western Treatment Plant on a rainy day.

April 18, 2015Posted in UncategorizedLeave a comment

White-winged Black Tern

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015Posted in UncategorizedTagged White-winged Black TurnLeave a comment

Welcoming back the Flame Robins

April 17, 2015April 17, 2015Posted in Flame RobinLeave a comment

Few Changes in Birds as Poetry blogsville

April 16, 2015April 16, 2015Posted in Uncategorized2 Comments

Astute reader that you are, you’ll note that the corkboard backdrop (sooo yesterday, – Paris Hilton), has disappeared

Also each new blog will get a single header image to establish the theme of the blog.

Also for the time being, the images/story will be generated on my other site and sent here for re-blogging. (Not much else on other site, but I can experiment there to get the best look here.

Expect to see the overall theme change on this page, although I’ve said that before and its never happened.

Oh, and while I’ll continue on Flickr, expect to see the images on this site show more of the story of each event. I can’t make Flickr tell a complete tale.

More to come as I try and redevelop this to express where I’m going photographically in 2015 and beyond.

Probably see many more quotes from Jon Young and Rod MacKiver, and Lao Tze and Winnie the Pooh. Oh, well its that sort of mind.

Enjoy the ride.