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

Living in a Box - 1985

 We wouldn't go as far as to say a good start to the day with not a single Macro Moth added to the Year List these MICRO

BOX WORM MOTHs

will have to substitute until the 'PROPER' ones start streaming in again!
Despite the lack of a really good start this was soon redressed as finding our

Home Bred

SWALLOWs

are now

On the Wing

and look raring to go!

But on a 'major down-side' this juvenile

GREEN WOODPECKER
fell to carelessly disguarded netting, just for want of a little care!!!!

In the main Solar Panel Compoud as small a

RABBIT
as you could wish for, about the size of a 'cooking apple' and followed by more

MEADOW

PIPITs

with 'tiny' Lambs

which still don't seem to be growing.

At the Irrigation Pond at first c2 new

MOORHEN CHICKs

then c3 and eventually a

QUARTET
with the 'clear and present danger' of

GREY HERON
almost within 'neck-streching' range.
Again, another far more obliging

RED ADMIRAL
along with a

SMALL COPPER
(butterfly)