Straited Pardalote – Birds as Poetry —— Just because I WANDER

Off to a Flying Start

January 4, 2017January 4, 2017Posted in Birdsaspoetry, Black-shouldered Kite, Jacky Winter, Photographic Seeing, Red-capped Robin, Sacred Kingfisher, Straited Pardalote, Tree Martin, White-plumed HoneyeaterTagged Red-capped Robin, White-plumed Honeyeater4 Comments

Haven’t been in the doldrums. It’s just that there is so many things happening.
Been enjoying Mike over at The Online Photographer See here for “When things Go Wrong”. http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2016/12/things-go-wrong.html
Go on, have a look, you deserve a smile. Especially the comment on alarm clocks that don’t turn off!

Been meandering through Julieanne Kost’s “Passenger Seat” folio book. Julieanne is a product evangelist for Adobe Lightroom, (and having been one of them product evangellies in me time, I am a bit sympathetic to start with),
But Julieanne is quite a creative, and very visually expressive photographer. As she says in the introduction, “meeting with others continually opens my eyes to what’s possible.” and that is why we share stuff I guess.

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Taking a bit of a drive for Pardalote Parenting

November 20, 2016November 20, 2016Posted in Guildford, Newstead, Straited PardaloteTagged Guildford, Guildford General Store, Newstead, Striated Pardalote6 Comments

Spoke to Mr An Onymous and suggested that we might like to do a day trip up to see the Rainbow Bee-eaters working in the creek-line at the Newstead Cemetery.
The promise of a pie from the Guildford General Store sort of clinched the deal, and we found a day that looked promising weather wise and planned accordingly.

Best light in to the creek-line would be late afternoon as my Mum’s “Keep the Sun over your Left Shoulder, Dear!” would be just the ticket.

Phoned Guilford General to ensure that they would have a pie in the warmer for us, and chose a Lamb Rogan Josh and a Chicken Kashmiri as the likely candidates. “All good to go,” says Emily. We then packed the gear and headed up.

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