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Cold, fog, and a 90th birthday

23/6/2013

 
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Summer's coming! Yes, with the winter equinox out of the way - the days are longer (by about a minute, but who cares?) And after a cold and wet week, I watched the few moments of sunshine from Mt Barker summit. Mist draped off the top of the mountain, dissipated when cloud obscured the sun, then rushed up the mountain when the sun came out - astonishingly beautiful!

Fog and rain yesterday on the mountain, strong easterly winds with wind chill near zero today. I honestly don't remember being so cold! Anyway, here's the bird records for the weekend (I was surprised I saw/heard anything!)






And a day apart makes a difference:

The Bird list:

Saturday in heavy fog and rain: wrens, ravens, y/f h/es, babblers, rosies, t-bills; HEARD: fantail, GW, spiney, shrikey


Sunday in swirling mist: fantails, wrens, spiney, pardies (H), black-capped sitellas (on the north side AGAIN!), GW (H) and the (I think) rufous whistlers, y/f h/es, ravens, shrikey (on the freeway bridge!), t-bills, rosies, wattlebirds.
PictureTo the NE, mist, 23 June
After a difficult week at work, I've written the entrance scene for a new character for The Isthmus. Not as much as I'd hoped, but any start is no longer a blank page!

And a happy list of birthdays this week (and today): Ashton, Martina, Bruce, and congratulations Stan - 90 years young!

Happy writing

Bo
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Back to normality - and the Bird Reports

27/4/2013

 
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Mrs Golden Whistler
The good part: Celebrated Mum's birthday on Friday by having lunch in town and fixing up some business for her (a better celebration will be next Saturday).

THE BIRD REPORTS

25th April: Circuit Track, Entrance Road, Summit
RBFs + wrens + tbills in a bunch, fantails, y/f hes, spineys playing, clogs
Heard: ravens, pies, curras, babblers, pardies

26th April: Circuit Track, Entrance Road, Summit
Mr & Mrs GW (not calling), fantails, wrens, y/f h/es, spineys, t/bills, babblers, rosies, curras, wattlebirds

27th April: Circuit Track, Entrance Road, Summit (windy)
Y/f h/es, curras, pies, pardies (H), wrens (H), shrikeysx2 - calling (which I recorded) and mimicking currawongs (!), Mrs GW (see pic), y/r t-bills, striated t-bills, rosies, spineys, babblers (MOST IN CAR PARK)

28th April: Fire Track to Quarry
Pardies & Black-capped sitellas in the same dead tree, fantails + t-bills together, curras, sulphurs (H), Willie (on entrance road), MR GW (at quarry), rosies, wrens, clogs, y/f hes, corellas (large flock).

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The creek, Mt Barker Springs
Writing: Sent a couple of short stories off to the Writer's Digest 82nd Annual Writing competition. Apart from that, working on the added scenes in The Isthmus - yep, they must go into the RIGHT PLACE.

Back to work tomorrow - starting with a PD Day, students back on Tuesday. It's been a wonderful two week break; hard to psyche up to the rat race. And yes, back to once a week blog posts.

Happy writing (and wish I were bushwalking too)
Bo
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Looking east from the summit
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    At the Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, June 2012


    Author - Bo Henley

    I have two writing passions - crime fiction...and thrillers with a slight twist. Of course, if I tell you what the twists are, I'd have to kill you (see: The Crime Novels). There are rumours that I also write non-fiction with a science flavour, but I deny everything  (No, I don't. See: About Bo). And when I'm not writing, I LOVE reading (see: Bo is Reading).


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