Need more time
Two Spinebills chasing each other through the Salvia flowers, trying to evolve into Australian hummingbirds
gardens
A wing and a slayer
I just saw a bird fly up in the sky and pluck an unseen, by me, insect from the air.
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Bandits at 12 o’clock
When you are guarding sheep a crow overhead is a fearful sight, an eagle a thing of beauty. When you are guarding chickens the reverse is true.
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Grey matter
My world is full of black and white birds today. Magpies and Butcher Birds and Pee Wits and Willy Wagtails and Currawongs. Odd then that I usually think in shades of grey.
But he survived
A magpie just hit the window – thump! – an awful whack. Flying along with your family in the morning light, singing, not a care in the world, when suddenly, unseen, an obstacle nearly breaks your neck. Much like the course of human life.
All the birds
It does my heart good to see wrens and magpies, and parrots and butcher birds, and pigeons and honeyeaters, all flying and singing, in the morning light.
Destiny
Young steers keenly munching grass in a field. “Slow down!” I say, “the faster you eat, the sooner you’ll be slaughtered”. But they don’t believe me, unable, on a fine, sunny day, to imagine such a fate
Or all the above
Never met a farmer whose answer to a problem didn’t involve shooting it, poisoning it, cutting it down, or pumping something dry.