42. HOT PINK PARTY BIRDS

41. EAGLE EYES AND EYASSES

Weeks ago, out in the Can-Am with my husband, we saw 2 eagles gorging on a kangaroo. An ear torn off, brains out, intestines strewn on the ground, the kill was so fresh it hadn’t begun to smell. 

40. MINI DIAMONDS

We had such warm autumn on the farm, some birds were confused and thought it was spring. Diamond Firetail Finches breed August to January but have already fledged some dainty fellas in mid-winter.

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.