39. THE PROTECTION RACKET

Working in the city all last week, I pass a dam shrouded in mist. 

38. WHERE I LIVE IN DROUGHT

A farm in the mountains

once full of grass fed cattle,

a home near a cliff edge

where Wedge-tailed Eagles soar.

37. PIZZA OVEN BUCKET BIRD

 
Every one of the last five years there is a peck, peck, peck against the metal of the pizza oven. 
 

Pizza Oven Bird pecks the holes in the chimney for an energetic dust bath. Either that, or to take revenge on the rival he thinks he sees reflected back.

36. FEATHERS AND MIST

Waking before six this morning, I looked out the window to see the valleys where we live shrouded in fog, in thin cloud, in ghostly mist.

35. THE RAPTOR AND I

Driving home from work, I saw a Brown Falcon. It was almost 5 and the sun seemed impatient to set.

34. MORNING CANTICLE

          Birds chime in halfway through dawn singing in a fresh winter day. 

  

33. GOOD MORNING SCREECHERS

There isn’t usually screaming at 6:30 am at our place. But a flock of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos went on a flypast and then there was.

Two stayed behind to nibble the seeds off Cypress Pine trees.

32. SUPERB

This way