Great eggspectations
Every day, somewhere in the world, billions of birds sit on their nests, content and confident about the eggs that they cherish.
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ecology
Point of view
I hate the sound of a rabbit, at night, screaming in the jaws of a fox. But I can’t hear the fox cubs crying with hunger.
Happy to see you
The Choughs are back doing some gardening for me, and the sight of their ungainly walk and their happy family warms the cockles of my cold winter heart.
Falling down
Once I saw on the ground under trees blue fragments of a small egg. But were they from an egg that fell or one that had hatched? I didn’t know just what I should feel.
Seasons
Plumes of smoke on a cold Winter’s day bring thoughts of warmth and community and human busyness and achievement. Plumes of smoke on a hot Summer’s day bring thoughts of destruction and terror and loss and anger and failure.
Love birds
Birds in pairs, galahs, magpies, rosellas, butcher birds, crows, peewits, birds in pairs, thinking of Spring.
If only they had known
The human race is in the position the dinosaur race was in some 25 years before the impact of the Chicxulub meteor.
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Morning greetings
Three eagles on a windy morning circling circling low above my head and calling, calling: “Here we are” “Here we are” “We love wind” “We love wind” “Our domain” “Our domain”. And then they slide away slide away to another hill. “Here we are”.
Raindrops keep failing
I weep bitter tears when drought breaking rain is forecast and I get just a little bit less than bugger all
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