Birds have once again plummetted to the bottom of my preference list. One day to sleep late - just one day and what happens?? Dawn chorus begings - beautiful  -roll over - cuddle down - brain suddenly sparks - hang on thats a new sound - out of bed to find it and WHAT HAPPENS. Its the robin all proud of himself with a new addition to his repetoir - back to bed - muttered curses on the things head. Just drifting off and suddenly all hell breaks loose - jump up sure that my cats (who normaly look down on destain at the suggestion of hunting anything less exciting than mozambique spitting cobras) have started to murder some poor innocent BUT NO it is a very angry crested barbet sure he is going to kill his reflection in my window - have you heard how much noise an angry barbet can make - SO NO SLEEP.

The trees however are all at their quiet beautiful best at the moment. Patches of bright yellow weeping wattles toned down by carpets of creamy umbrela thorn flowers, the beautiful mauves of the tree wisterias amongst the pink and yellows of the sickle bushes - oh so beautiful and peacefull.

On the dam two secretary birds colluded in an attempt (nearly succeded) to beach my boat by drinking on the shore line and showing of to such an extent that I forgot to keep an eye on how deep we were - a blatent attempt at sabatage by the bird world. Later we came accross a pied kingfisher beating a poor innocent fish to death ignoring all the amnesty international laws against torcher and a juvanile golieth heron added to my woes with a cut on the hand whilst getting weeds of the propellas (gathered whilst getting closer for a client to photograph him). He could at least have posed in a weed free area.

See everything changes depending on how you view the point and on how much sleep you have managed to loose.

• 17/10/2009 12:21 - Yes! She is back!!!!!!
• 07/03/2009 08:59 - Another Perfect moment
• 05/03/2009 17:20 - A Magnificent Sight
• 03/12/2008 16:12 - raptures for raptors
• 17/11/2008 16:28 - A new one
• 14/11/2008 09:49 - Trapped Indoors Again
• 10/11/2008 09:27 - Crowned eagles and early humans
• 09/11/2008 12:15 - Yes! Yes! Yes!