This post is not a 2018 Melbourne Cup field update!
However, it will answer a question that you probably have never asked:
How does an echidna scratch itself?
The featured image’s stilt was photographed at Lake Claremont – one of our favourite Perth places. (see various earlier posts, tagged)
Even the most elegant birds contort themselves in order to relieve an itch.
Just a few seconds earlier, this robin had appeared rotund, sleek, settled, and almost “mayorally robed”…
A micro-moment earler, this wren had been the quintessence of, “Mr Gorgeous, flaunting his presence/availability”.
…and – answering this post’s question – is an echidna with whom we shared an uncommonly close encounter, a few days ago, in the Otways. He/she will soon have his/her own Pelican Yoga post.
