Who killed cock robin?
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gemfyreWent on a picnic at Bell's Rapids yesterday. When we got there I noticed thunder rumbling and dark clouds gathering. Mum's comment was "didn't you see the lightning?"
Anyway, started to rain as soon as we were set up. We almost got out of there but it passed and the sun came out again.
I spotted a robin in the bush in front of me. Obviously an adult male because his breast feathers were really bright. Noticed a few others flitting about as well. Possibly females or more likely younger males as they were similar to the main male, just paler. I got my camera out and went off to find them again. Eventually I found our man perched in a casurina. He let me get pretty close and I snapped quite a few photos of him. This one being the best...
Pretty lil' fella. There was also another bird there I couldn't ID. Very loud pretty whistle. TINY little bird. I figured it was probably a silvereye or something but it didn't look like one of them. Looked vaguely brown honeyeater but it was too small and the wrong shape to be one of them. I don't know what it was, only photo I got of it makes it look like another leaf anyway.
I really wanna get to a doctor about this throat of mine but won't be able to even call to make an appointment before Tuesday. I'm worried it'll turn into an inner ear infenction and just want to know WHAT it is and start working towards making it better.
Anyway, started to rain as soon as we were set up. We almost got out of there but it passed and the sun came out again.
I spotted a robin in the bush in front of me. Obviously an adult male because his breast feathers were really bright. Noticed a few others flitting about as well. Possibly females or more likely younger males as they were similar to the main male, just paler. I got my camera out and went off to find them again. Eventually I found our man perched in a casurina. He let me get pretty close and I snapped quite a few photos of him. This one being the best...
Pretty lil' fella. There was also another bird there I couldn't ID. Very loud pretty whistle. TINY little bird. I figured it was probably a silvereye or something but it didn't look like one of them. Looked vaguely brown honeyeater but it was too small and the wrong shape to be one of them. I don't know what it was, only photo I got of it makes it look like another leaf anyway.
I really wanna get to a doctor about this throat of mine but won't be able to even call to make an appointment before Tuesday. I'm worried it'll turn into an inner ear infenction and just want to know WHAT it is and start working towards making it better.
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Re: Well you have an excuse...
Date: 2003-04-20 09:46 pm (UTC)Haven't been overseas yet but I have been to Adelaide and Dubbo zoo. Dubbo!! *droolz*. They have enough space to have entire HERDS of antelope rather than just maybe 4 like Perth had.
I take loads and loads of photos at the zoo (drawing stuff would be hell nifty tho, I can't draw :( ), I also take the odd notes. Like my goal to go there every month and monitor the wetland birds, it's awesome around the end of winter because there are nests and baby birds everywhere. I have membership so I can just wander in and out as I please, so going every month just means I need to be motivated enough to drive there.
One time I was looking at the tiger (Calang, the male tiger was the only tiger they had at the time) and he was just laying near the glass and staring at me and I was staring back. It was kinda tiger-human communion, twas awesome.
I'm on a first name basis with many of the animals in the African section and the carnivores. I did work experience there in 1999.