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Most of the starkly magnificent Changtang is now within the world’s highest nature reserve, which is also one of the largest.
Its emblematic mammal has fur more precious than gold – a circumstance which very nearly led to the species’ extinction.
Comments closedNow happening in southern Australia…and some us do not have to leave town in order to enjoy surprisingly close views.
On at least one inner-metropolitan lake, Podiceps cristatus has recently become surprisingly much less wary of Homo sapiens.
One CommentAs we had done many hundreds of times over the last three decades, my beloved and I walked to Lake Monger shortly before sunset on the second day of 2020.
This time, we witnessed something utterly unexpected.
6 Comments…with some actual pelicans – the Australian kind, Pelecanus conspicillatus. Good grooming is so important…
One CommentOur China “expedition” had two other key destinations: nature reserves in environments much wetter, warmer – and lower – than the Tibetan Plateau.
Various aspects of Tangjiahe and Labahe will eventually be explored in individual posts on Pelican Yoga.
Comments closedThe world’s largest and highest plateau is bigger than Western Europe. Many of its plains are more than twice as high as mainland Australia’s highest peak. The China-mislabelled “Tibetan Autonomous Region” contains less than half of it.
2 CommentsThe first two happenings were entirely natural.
The gleaming involved a little unwitting assistance from skyscrapers.
All occurred as daylight ebbed at Perth’s Lake Monger, on September 30, 2019. (photos copyright Doug Spencer)
One CommentThe late September holiday weekend usually coincides with the peak of Perth’s annual springtime wildflower “explosion”.
Not in 2019: very low rainfall in August and September prompted many plants to flower early…or not at all.
At any time of year some things are in flower, but if you wish to experience Perth’s 2019 Spring wildflowers, head to places like this post’s destination very soon!
Comments closedAll photos taken in Perth’s Kings Park on Wednesday September 11, 2019.
The “spiders” are orchids, the “fruits” are inedible, the “spikes” are incredible.
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