10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2014
'Less than two weeks into the new year and I’m already used to writing 2014 instead of 2013. That must be a new record! This weekend, I took time to appreciate the sight of ten American Robins congregating in a leafless tree. The use of the robin as a symbol for spring seems inapt considering how beautiful those rust red breasts appear in the gray of winter.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2014
'When we have cyclonic weather around it is always worth going out to look for any birds that have been blown off course. It is not always a fruitful search and sometimes it can be a few days after the tropical low or cyclone passes by before anything is observed. In fact it was just a casual walk along the shoreline in Broome heading towards the port several days after the windy and wet weather that I accidentally flushed a bird roosting on the rocks.
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