The morning silence was disturbed by the squealing gull toddler. Here are some of the water birds. No pelicans because horror of horror I left my camera's battery charger at home! How will I survive when the battery runs out???
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
Super bird shots. The baby sure is a noisy one. Doesn't that make you mad when you forget the charger.
ReplyDeleteRead this post yesterday, and left it open most of the day, to try to identify the birds. I shall try again this evening. Am doing Ma-care today. Hee hee hee ...
ReplyDeleteWas a bit stretched getting all the posts done and meant to try and identify them. Here is what I think they are
ReplyDelete1. Seagull
2. Egret - don't know what type
3.Masked Lapwing (Plover)
4. White faced heron
5. Cormorant or Shag ... dunno which
6. Black swans
7. Dunno
There was a stupid tv show on a few years ago about "Whinging Poms" who had emigrated to Australia - there was a woman who was complaining about the screeching, squawking birds - like cockatoos, that woke her up in the morning. She said in England they had sweetly chirping dainty little birds. I'd never thought of it that way before!
ReplyDeleteWell I reckon even dainty bird babies do a lot of squawking ... but you've gotta admit that we do have rather a lot of large squawking birds.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, Joan. All birds are beautiful and the capture on top is fantastic.
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