Avon Valley National Park - new bird!

Yesterday's walk was about 80km out of Perth on the Darling Scarp at Avon Valley National Park. The main habitats here are jarrah forests with an understorey of dryandra, a river valley and open wandoo forest.

Unfortunately we didn't see the hoped for Crested Shrike-tit but I did get one new bird - Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus ornatus). Got good looks at two of them. :)

Also got stuck at the gate for an hour with a few other people. The overzealous ranger closed the park about 20 minutes early.

( Avon Valley list )

( Birds seen elsewhere today )

Avon Valley National Park - new bird!

Yesterday's walk was about 80km out of Perth on the Darling Scarp at Avon Valley National Park. The main habitats here are jarrah forests with an understorey of dryandra, a river valley and open wandoo forest.

Unfortunately we didn't see the hoped for Crested Shrike-tit but I did get one new bird - Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (Lichenostomus ornatus). Got good looks at two of them. :)

Also got stuck at the gate for an hour with a few other people. The overzealous ranger closed the park about 20 minutes early.

( Avon Valley list )

( Birds seen elsewhere today )

Another of those stupid things

I've noticed than on the packet of Lavash bread I bought it says "Fresh baked".

Pray tell - how do you bake something and have it not be fresh?

Another of those stupid things

I've noticed than on the packet of Lavash bread I bought it says "Fresh baked".

Pray tell - how do you bake something and have it not be fresh?

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"If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."

- George H. Leigh Mallory

(no subject)

"If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."

- George H. Leigh Mallory