Dawn, MtBS
Only a South Australian could celebrate 2.3mm of rain! I think Queensland has had probably 50 times that amount. We've had one of the driest spring and summer periods for years, the flora is dying, and we desperately need rain. There's some forecast for tomorrow - please could we have 5-10mm!
The good news: I've sent a short story away for the Kernewek Lowender (Cornish Festival) competition! I'm so excited - apart from the achievement but the fact that I managed to condense it into 2000 words. I think the 3500 word version is better, but it's down to a neat package. The other writing assignment (Saturday) has been sent in too. Now back to the novels!
Bird and fauna report: Somehow they're hanging in there, hoping for rain like us. Saw 12 kangaroos feeding in the lower paddocks of MtBS - the largest mob so far. Birds: wrens, babblers, y/f h/es, Mrs GW and Mr GW (separate sections of the entrance road - must've had a tiff), rosies, striated t-bills, and heard fantails, spiney, pardies and curras. Just down from the Summit - 3 x wagtails fighting on the road (!) [life expectancy = the next car], ibis (white and straw-necked) just out of Littlehampton, spiney & y/r t-bill bathing in the roadside gutter at home! (Mind you, I have 3 shallow b-baths plus 3 larger ones a few metres away at my unit). The galahs, sulphurs and corellas are flocking in at night - noisy (for a while) but always fun.
Happy Easter Week and happy writing,
Bo
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PS The ibis were on the southern end of the King William Street Bridge - right in the heart of the city. I've never seen so many there before. They weren't taking much notice of...(egad) PEOPLE either!
The good news: I've sent a short story away for the Kernewek Lowender (Cornish Festival) competition! I'm so excited - apart from the achievement but the fact that I managed to condense it into 2000 words. I think the 3500 word version is better, but it's down to a neat package. The other writing assignment (Saturday) has been sent in too. Now back to the novels!
Bird and fauna report: Somehow they're hanging in there, hoping for rain like us. Saw 12 kangaroos feeding in the lower paddocks of MtBS - the largest mob so far. Birds: wrens, babblers, y/f h/es, Mrs GW and Mr GW (separate sections of the entrance road - must've had a tiff), rosies, striated t-bills, and heard fantails, spiney, pardies and curras. Just down from the Summit - 3 x wagtails fighting on the road (!) [life expectancy = the next car], ibis (white and straw-necked) just out of Littlehampton, spiney & y/r t-bill bathing in the roadside gutter at home! (Mind you, I have 3 shallow b-baths plus 3 larger ones a few metres away at my unit). The galahs, sulphurs and corellas are flocking in at night - noisy (for a while) but always fun.
Happy Easter Week and happy writing,
Bo
x
PS The ibis were on the southern end of the King William Street Bridge - right in the heart of the city. I've never seen so many there before. They weren't taking much notice of...(egad) PEOPLE either!
