Oh Island in the Sun - Part II

With our visit having been in the recent past, but not recent enough to remember which day it was, all we can do is to remind you that it was 'last week' and the Terns were about to appear!

But firstly the Moths since then

starting with the most handsome and sharply contrasting

CLOAKED CARPET

the tiny

MINOR SHOULDER-KNOT

GREEN PUG

and just as we suspected, the

SUSPECTED
moth that is!
As previously recalled the Terns could be heard from afar but mostly reluctant to come to the east of the estuary, but eventually first one

COMMON TERN

followed by a second before our attention turned to a small number of
Wading Birds
at the tide-line

represented by a couple of

SANDERLING

another 'turn' this time

TURNSTONE
while the 'tern' theme continued with the dainty

LITTLE TERNs

gracing

our optics

before clocking a single

WHEATEAR

close to the car park.
It would have been a wasted moment had we not stopped of at Lodmore on our way home,

luckily

catching up with the

GREAT WHITE EGRET

There were c5 reported there yesterday!!
(more tomorrow we hope)

Oh Island in the Sun - Part I

 On no more than a whim we decided to chug off the Weymouth and North Portland on what looked more like an Autumn day than Mid-Summer

due to a Trick of the Sun, and no we haven't forgotten the Moth Traps!
A fine trio of 'first's for the year'

SCALLOP SHELL

BLACK ARCHES
and

SMALL DOTTED BUFF

ditto
the next time we looked we were at

FERRYBRIDGE PORTLAND 

under quite a different cloud formation with

most obliging

OYSTERCATCHERs

kicking off proceedings.

Scanning the fore-shore and the Fleet most promising were the calls of Terns
which we would chase up later after concentrating on the equally obliging

MEDITERRANIAN GULLs

mostly adults

but also

in the mix

a number of

Younger Individuals

At a mooring in the middle of the Fleet a barge holding

LOBSTER / CRAB POTS
which would surely have gone A.W.O.L. had they been left ashore!

and to end what will likely become a 'trilogy'

RAG-WORM CASTs

Australia - Manic Street Peachers Part III

 Alternatively, Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil!

A third time, Maybe Lucky, with no errors??

In what might be call the Very Heart of the country

ALICE SPRINGS

CHESTNUT-QUILLED ROCK PIGEON

had not seen or felt a single drop of RAIL in 11 years until just before our arrival

FOREST KINGFISHER

so likely a case of

Out where the river broke, the blood-wood and the desert oak.

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels, steam in 45 degrees.

How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? 

BLACK-NECKED STORK

Four wheels scare the cockatoos, from Kintore East to Yuendemu.

The Western Desert lives and breathes, in 45 degrees.

RED-COLLARED LORIKEET

A welcoming, clean and value for money Guest House was soon found and having researched the Sewage Works here enquired as to its whereabouts.

MISTLETOE BIRD
and asking of distance and access the landlady suggested we would need a taxi and would see what she could do about a key, which was on our bedside table within the hour - A Great Start.

ALICE SPRINGS SEWERAGE WORKS
devoid of Humans - full of Birds!

with the taxi ride taking a full 15 minutes, and hows this for a trio of Waterfowl

GREEN PYGMY GEESE

PINK-EARED DUCK
along with

RADJAH SHELDUCK

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER

LEMON-BELLIED FLYCATCHER

WONGA PIGEON

Above the waterline, Point the Finger yeah Point the Bone.

It's the harbour towns, that the grey metal ships call home!

And if we think about it, and if we talk about it.

And if the seas go boiling black, can you tell me what you'll do about that?

BROLGA

WATER MONITOR

MASKED PLOVER

PHEASANT COUCAL

BLUE-FACED

HONEYEATER

PIED HERON

BUSH THICK-KNEE

PEACEFUL DOVE

COMB-CRESTED JACANA

Put down that weapon, or we'll all be gone.

I must know something, to know it's so wrong!

 And it happens to be an emergency, some things aren't meant to be.

Some things don't come for Free!!!!

'BEST PROTEST SONG EVER WRITTEN'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E