To attract a peahen, a peacock raises his train into a wide fan shape, then shimmies and shakes, enclosing her in a glorious cave of long feathers.
12 September 2020
07 September 2020
29 August 2020
08 July 2020
75. Fruit for Breakfast
I’ve been teaching at a school in
a village in the mountains. It takes about an hour to get there and another to
travel home again. But even at the coldest time of the year, going to work meant I witnessed extraordinary things.
21 June 2020
74. Chick Number 3
Life is tenuous. All life, but particularly wildlife, and
bird life too.
On the morning I went to check if the last Grey Shrike Thrush
had left the nest, I almost killed it.
31 May 2020
27 May 2020
72. Blue Bonnet Babes
Winter started early with icy rain instead of sun. Things brightened up when I saw a family group of Fairy Wrens that live at the house though.
15 May 2020
71. Chick Number 2
The second Grey Shrike-thrush to hatch was the piggy in the middle. Not the largest, it emerged from the egg the day after the first. An expert at craning her neck over the top of the smallest chick, it was fed twice as much, doing whatever it could to ensure it would survive.
03 May 2020
28 April 2020
69. Chick Number 1
When Greedy first flopped out of the
nest, he immediately flew 20 metres out of the garage. Directly into daylight over our
driveway, he seemed shocked, simultaneously running out of steam and having a crisis of confidence.
24 April 2020
68. Wagtails in the Wilderness
I’d been walking near the house, but needed to go further away. Three
weeks of staying home meant I had a bit of cabin fever.
12 April 2020
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