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“Red-tails in suburbia” (#2 in series)

 

 

As you can see, the head of the male of this subspecies is – beak excepted – a study in “basic black”.

And, as you will see in following posts, even if the flash of an individual’s tail – or part of his/her chest – is all you can see, it is very easy to identify an adult red-tail’s gender.

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Sunny April afternoon, strolling on Swan’s edge (2 of 2)

 

Long before Europeans reached Australia, what is now “Perth’s Pelican Point” was already a place of considerable significance to both humans and birds.

Given its inner urban location – as a bird flies, a couple of minutes or less from the CBD of a metropolis – it is no small achievement that the bipeds who effectively “own” Pelican Point’s actual point are avian, not human.

In the featured image: white-headed stilts, black swans, and a little pied cormorant.

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Sunny April afternoon, strolling on Swan’s edge (1 of 2)

 

 

As you can see, on 18 April 2023, Perth and its big estuary – the Swan River – were bathed in bright sunlight.

It was a perfect day to enjoy good things which are not so readily available  – all, within just part of a single day – to most urban humans.

Where else would convenient, uncommonly cheap public transport (free, to “seniors”, outside “rush” hours) deliver you to one of Australia’s better pub lunches, after which the nearby riverside presents you with kilometres of glorious, publicly-accessible, uncrowded foreshore?

Even if you simply zip down to-fro the nearby jetty, you will enjoy a splendid vista and – almost certainly – a close encounter of the pelican kind.

And if you bother to walk along the foreshore….

 

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Aliens land in world’s most isolated metropolis (teaser)

 

Pictured above is one of several “flying saucers”.

Apparently, all were abandoned, shortly after landing.

They were recently discovered and photographed by Pelican Yoga’s Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Unit.

If you believe this – let alone the endlessly-repeated but false claim that Perth is the world’s most isolated city/capital city/ substantial city – please discuss further with Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny, Donald Trump, and the Tasmanian Tiger of your choice…

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Three of the same (#11 in series: white-headed stilts)

 

The birds pictured above were formerly known as “pied stilts”, and considered an Australasian subspecies of Himantopus himantopus, “yesterday’s heroes” – see #10 in this series.

This post’s heroes are now generally considered members of their own species, Himantopus leucocephalus.

Their “preferred” common name: white-headed stilts.

Each of these three individuals has the full complement of two legs.

Stilts, however, often prefer to stand on one leg, with the other one neatly folded and  tucked into their lower feathers.

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Winter walk, Ashfield Flats

 

 

If you confine your “nature walks” to places easily-reached without a car, and within 15 kilometres of Perth’s GPO, your worthwhile menu options are still surprisingly numerous.

Among them are the largest remaining river flats within the metropolitan area; Ashfield Flats’ nearer side is less than 10 kilometres from the GPO.

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