PossumCorner Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Bowie is lovely - and I like in the other thread he is looking just slightly in awe of Bella looking so elegant - not demoralised, just aware. This is not cute - consternation in the early morning as a small eagle/large hawk settled on the high corner post of the orchard. Looking out for goose or duck eggs, or a rabbit by the dam, or a chicken out and about when it shouldn't be. What I didn't notice til I looked at the shot on computer was how a Noisy Miner had chosen a little fruit tree with yellow stems for camouflage to lie low til the hawk had gone. Cleverness. Brief return to cuteness as Arnold sees the commotion and hurries up in case there's food. While three boy-geese set up a line to watch the intruder til it flies off. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 @PossumCorner a nice little bit of photo journalism 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 This is a photo of a spiny cheeked honeyeater in our eremophila bush . taken thru the windscreen of the 4WD the other day I love these birds- with their liquid warble, and blue eyes .. And this is our Winter "Red Fog" , A.K.A. Dust storm ..not a really bad one .. in that it was fast -moving in 62Km/h winds ..but..... lastly - an image I liked from the recent Adelaide street wanderings 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 @Scottsmum I just love the photo of light & shadow inside..with baby george crawling around a corner ...... it is such an interesting study Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumCorner Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Bird - tick. Cat - tick. Dust storm - thud! Never seen it like this here in winter, often windy/dusty but sheesh that is horrendous. Will you get some of the rain out of this lot, we have only had the odd spit for weeks now, and a dump of hail - but the hailstorm smashed the rain-gauge apart so no stats. I still have baby lambs in the house because the wind is like frozen knives even in the sheds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 @PossumCorner.. It is a very unsettling Winter One pop used to call a 'green Drought' ..JUST a slight tinge of new growth ..kept alive by traces of rain every so often ... but not grown high enough to graze. Water not soaked far enough down for many tap-rooted plants..and massive dust clouds floating past from farmers S/W of us, in SA - who worked up , many of whom sowed ..and then didn't get the follow-up rain . Their topsoil has now been up-lifted..a lot of grain which did sprout has been battered and decapitated by being sand-blasted ...it's just horrible , but at least most of us are near permanent water , unlike so many on the land away from rivers or pipelines There are many important things ..and watching some of our old sheep suffering is not nice .... our sheep are usually born and die here ..and if these oldies look to be really lagging, we'll shoot them for sure . Two days ago what brought me to tears was the sight of my 30 yr old Cymbidium orchid which the (starving) roos had finally found and chewed off . A lot of them are next on the list for a quick exit from this world... getting very bony & slow. Please excuse the OT ramblings, folks.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roova Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 (edited) Great photos everyone! In saying that your description of life at the moment made me feel anxious for you Perse. Bit of a worry with winter coming to an end which is when you could normally at least expect decent rain. Edited July 23, 2018 by Roova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 @Roova...thanks been there, done that a time or 3 before ..It's not good, but in some ways we are fortunate in that our whole livelihood doesn't come from our few sheep like many families up North Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roova Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Late for last week's photo sorry. Another lovely warm day on the Gold Coast. Most beaches need life guards all year round, some are professional but many are volunteers too. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumCorner Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Roova that is so Australia, and wonderful blues. Had to be a Nikon? I did say I didn't buy anything at the Sheep Show. That was a white lie (see ot thread re people who fib) because these two actually followed me home. 29/52 Their back-story is unreal, they are now six weeks old. As newborn/one-day old they came off a drought property in central NSW, travelled all the way to Victorian saleyards in the dog-boxes under a semi trailer. Only because the driver knew someone who just might try to save them: and taking at that age with sheep to the yards not legal etc. So a pretty fabulous person met the truck out from Melbourne, and took (not saying how many) lambs to bottle-raise. Harley and Rose are two of them, so they've had a pretty adventurous little life so far. I maybe chose them because they'd been named for a song I used to like, about love drifted apart, love re-found (… This time they said it was for real …. Like static on the dial, a look comes back in style Harley and Rose, they just lost it for a while) - Black Sorrows, good stuff. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Animal House Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 You're a lovely person PC, what beaut little lambs they are too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 7 hours ago, PossumCorner said: Harley and Rose, they just lost it for a while) - Black Sorrows, good stuff. thanks for that ...it's been in my head all day .... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottsmum Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 On 7/21/2018 at 8:58 PM, grizabella said: This thread is getting awfully cute! And it's about to get even cuter! 29/56: Baby Bowie, Bella's new friend who lives down the road. Bowie by Amy Atherton, on Flickr Oh my! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottsmum Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 On 7/23/2018 at 2:24 PM, persephone said: @Scottsmum I just love the photo of light & shadow inside..with baby george crawling around a corner ...... it is such an interesting study Thanks Perse. I love it. Shame the corner of the desk got in it & ruined the lines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 A new week ..and a new photo . Hmmmm An apostlebird keeping an eye out for dangers from above 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizabella Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Week 30/56... just a bit of Bella Bella by Amy Atherton, on Flickr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Bellissima ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roova Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Lovely shot of the apostle bird Perse. Bella's just gorgeous! When you have more fun with clay than your nieces you're entertaining lol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 @Roova that does look fun ..and colourful .be christmas decoration time soon :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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