Author: seashore

I get to drive around the Flinders Ranges these days showing tourists through the gorges and these turned up after I’d dropped off some walkers and was on my way back to Rawnsley Park…

Alula flight feathers or, bastard winglets are small wings at the elbow of birds especially raptors… and probably many others. I took some photographs of a Nankeen Kestrel displaying them in strong up-draughts hovering above the cliffs south of my home in Adelaide… and an Australasian Pelican sans alula’s…

… can be seen on my blog above…

Regards

Morning all

I get a thrill out of seeing large congregations of birds in one area so a visit to Lake George in South Australia at the moment would see massive numbers of Black Swan that were there during a recent visit (end of May 22). Good time for a visit… apart from the cold windy weather…

Don’t bother with Bool Lagoon… bone dry at the moment.

They are so well camouflaged and the reasons for their survivability are probably contained in the vision of introduced predators…

My blog has been on hold for a while as I’ve been working over the summer. However, I took some photos this morning close to my home in Seacliff, South Australia, of some Crested Terns, one of which has a leg band… ? While on the subject of Crested Terns I remember seeing formation flying behaviour that I’ve not seen other than on the Kimberley Coast…

Ciao

… when are Governments going to take their stewardship of our already degraded environment responsibly by showing some foresight. While the Government is promoting a “Green Adelaide” the rest of the state is going to hell in a hand basket. Little do they realise that promoting the desertification of the South Australian rangelands by allowing this draft bill to proceed will eventually severely impact Adelaide with increased severity of extreme hot weather events and choking dust storms, regardless of their city-centric mentality…

Do birds really accept Cuckoo’s parasitic behaviour magnanimously… I know one Willie who doesn’t approve… “everyone knows the deal is rotten”.