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Birds have been one of the joys of my return home. This currawong, unlike the brown pigeon who likes my front deck, wasn’t at all perturbed when I stepped out the door. He was pecking away at the water on the table, and then hopped up onto the railing to scrutinise the pink sheet I was desperately trying to get dry between showers. Eventually he was joined by three mates in the bottlebrush, who tilted their heads sideways, looked knowingly at me, sang their beautiful song, and flew away. My son tells me they sometimes go into his room to steal the dog food.
For currawong song, listen to this. Not my video, but absolutely my experience the day of the RegularRandom shoot.
My inspiration for this post is DesleyJane’s weekly challenge, RegularRandom. She asks you to spend five minutes with one subject and photograph it in as many ways as possible. For far more expert and technical takes on this challenge have a look here. I haven’t been very experimental – it was enough of a challenge to find a willing avian subject.
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That’s great Meg – getting him to pose for you like that! Birds are notoriously difficult to photograph! I love how he keeps his eye on you. Oh and I appreciate the pink sheet 😊 Thanks so much for joining in!
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When I was arranging my studio (haha!) I thought of you and found the pink sheet specially!!!
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Hehehe love it!!!
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I actually wish I’d really thought of it!!!
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What a magnificent fella – must be one of the corvids with that beak and tendency to steal food. Lovely singing though having looked into them further I notice a lot of people are not a fan of their early morning calls. I currently have a young magpie who seems to think he can perch on my seed feeder as do the sparrows and tits, I think he must have tried the other morning as I came down to find all the seed on the ground!
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If you’re interested in corvids read this absolutely beautiful peace. The writer’s my current hero.
http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Issue61_Nonfiction_SheilaWebsterBoneham.html
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Pinching dog food eh? But then he looks like a corvid so I guess he might behave like a magpie. What amazing voices they have!
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You too might like the essay I linked Jude to. He’s not the only critter that pinches Cruz’s food. There has been a blue tongued lizard, and a neighbour dog who died recently. H’s eulogy for Naarla included this: “Cruz even had a special squeak when he knew you were at the door- letting me know when to come let you in so you two could have your epic pissathons.” (I’m getting off the track!!!)
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Those currawongs of the south coast are certainly cheeky. I do love their song though. We don’t get them in this part of the country.
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That surprises me – they seem universal. I was so lucky that this fellow was prepared to sit for me!
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No we definitely don’t have. We don’t have kookaburras either. We have a lot of magpies and wattle birds. In summer the white corellas and magnificent yellow tailed black cockatoos visit for many months.
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oh what a lovely slideshow, have happily sat here for 5minutes watching it again and again 🙂
glad he did nothing more though than eye up on your sheet!
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Me too! I hang big stuff there and it has never been shat upon. I’m an awful bird photographer, but this one was a very willing subject. I’m glad you enjoyed him.
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He does look a bit cranky! I know the feeling well 🙂 🙂 Shells for breakfast? No wonder he wasn’t impressed. Beautiful singer though! Happy, happy whatever day it is in Australia!
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It was the plovers that are cranky. Currawongs are quite cheerful – I need to be guardian of their image! It’s now the end of Sunday, as your Sunday begins – a lazy day for me, trying to navigate my way through all the projects that seem to be proliferating. Pleasureable projects, but far too many, and far too much ignorance to overcome. If I send Sunday hugs, you can enjoy them all day.
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I will! 🙂 🙂 Projects… mine seldom come to fruition but simply float about in the vapour I call a brain.
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Thanks for the Currawong performance. Hope I am in then right place. I tried to comment on the other post but it drew a blank. Do you get Plovers down there? have had Plovers here and in the grounds at our church. Mostly sticking together in a family of Mum and Dad and 1 or more offspring.
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Heaps of them at the Point. They’re usually cranky, which is probably how they’ve survived dogs, cats, cars and their habit of laying eggs in a shallow depression on the ground, often where people walk. I’ve been dive-bombed a few times.
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